Starting this Wednesday, I will be semi-stealing an idea from Patrick Rapa and the fine site, I Read a Short Story Today, not to mention Steven J. McDermott over at StoryGlossia and his fine blog. That is, I will be reading either a story, poem, or an essay/article (my very slight twist) each day and commenting on it here at the EWN Blog. These will come from literary journals, both print and online, anthologies, or possibly story collections that I'm not quite ready to review the full book, or might not ever plan to.
And by the end of this week, things should get back to normal in terms of reviews and interviews around here as all computer problems are history and the more intensive weeks of the LBC quarter are behind us for the time being. Look "forward" to reviews of the following books soon:
| Marks, Justin | You Being You By Proxy |
| Flick, Sherrie | I Call This Flirting |
| Falco, Ed | In the Park of Culture |
| Falco, Ed | Wolf Point |
| Kirn, Walter | Mission to America |
| Kirn, Walter | Thumbsucker |
| King, Stephen | The Colorado Kid |
| Iweala, Uzodinma | Beats of No Nation |
| All That Heavenly Glory | Elizabeth Crane |
| When the Messenger is Hot | Elizabeth Crane |
| Other Electricities | Ander Monson |
| Vacationland | Ander Monson |
| Divided Kingdom | Rupert Thomson |
and a few others that I am having difficulty recalling the titles and authors of including at least one translated novel. There will also be interviews coming with Marks, Flick, Falco, Crane, Kirn and Monson (3 of which can already be seen at the other EWN site and the LBC).
Update: A brief bit of memory synapse just fired up - the translated novel referred to above is Gotz and Meyer by David Albahari, and another book is the new novella from Chris Abani, Becoming Abigail (due out in April from Akashic Books).
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