The Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie, isbn 9780618788774, 358 pages, Houghton Mifflin,  $14.00

This collection varies from year to year depending on who is guest-editing the volume.  This year the editor is Salman Rushdie.  It was interesting to me that of the 20 stories here, I had read 6 in the magazines where they ( Read more... )

I really hate it when my computer decides it wants to do something other than what I'm asking it to do.  Let's see if I can manage to get this posted this time.

I can't believe I haven't posted a book review here since the end of October.  Part of that had to do with how much my reading slowed down because of "The Firflake" getting published.  But ( Read more... )

It's 2am, and I just crossed the 34,000 word line for NaNo.  I'm stopping there for the night.  I do need to get some sleep ( Read more... )