Short Fiction

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Is about all I've been reading lately. It's a genre that I hadn't delved into much, with the exception of Big Cats by Holiday Reinhorn, and Saffron and Brimstone, by I don't remember who but it was fantastically weird, and Murakami's shorts. I love love love it. EH1812 mentioned Speaking with the Angels, which is edited by Nick Hornby, yesterday, and I happened to run across it at the library just last night. They didn't have Arafat's Elephants, the collection I had gone it for. Anyways, the Hornby book is sooooo magnificent. I just finished reading The Department of Nothing, which is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read.

In class this past month we've read a good bit of short fiction. If you haven't read The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick, by Elizabeth Gilbert, then your life is sorely incomplete. All My Relations, by (I think) Barry Hannah, was some fantastic reading as well.

It pains me that this genre is so overlooked by most people.