Starting with hitting a local Borders late Saturday night (to apparently prepare for Short Story Month) when I picked up the Danielle Evans story 
collection, before you suffocate your own fool self (Riverhead, 2010), and the paperback version of Stephen O'Connor's here comes another lesson: stories (free press, 2010), and on through to today's mail delivery, it was a busy three days.
I also received a copy of Jesus Angel Garcia's debut novel, badbadbad (New Pulp Press, 2011). I've had the pleasure of meeting Jesus at AWP and emailing back and forth with him the past year and a half or so and look forward to seeing what 
this novel's all about. Well, apparently "Roleplay is a dangerous game when you don't know who you are" is at least a bit of what 
it's all about per the front cover.
Saturday found me at a Bargain Books store where I found copies of Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996), and Mr. Pleasant (Michigan State University Press, 2007), a short story collection from Jim Daniels who I believe is still in charge of the CW program at Carnegie Mellon University and I also believe origially 
hails from here in Michigan.
Today's mail brought the most recent issues of the Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (Volume 42, Number 1), which has a short story from Jacqueline Guidry and poetry from Heather Ross Miller within it's covers, and American Book Review, which has reviews of both Matt Bell's How They Were Found and Terese Svoboda's Pirate Talk, or Mermalade inside the cover. Oddly enough, I believe both of these arrive courtesy of Thomas Williams, even though he's no longer with ASU.
The mail also brought Something About the Animal, stories by 
Cathy Stonehouse (Biblioasis, 2011), a collection I was previously unaware of, and a galley of Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers, which came couresy of Three Guys One Book, whose contest I apparently was one of the winners of (you only had to enter a comment, not do any calculus or anything hard).
Lastly, a copy of 
The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson, a chapbook I'd been looking for for some time and was able to track down last week. This one happens to be number 10 of 300 (the paperback, not the hardcover), signed by Evenson.
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