I am not immune to the year in review meme

by JS on December 31, 2009

books Of the thirty-odd books I read in 2009, well over half were short story collections. So it isn’t surprising most of my favorite books turned out to be story collections: Demons in the Spring and Bluebirds Used to Croon (…)

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These fine websites update more often than I do

by JS on December 12, 2009

Some blogs I’ve subscribed to recently: Erin Fitzgerald’s Rarely Likable “a litblog for dilettantes” has linkbucket posts that are actually interesting and not just bloggy filler. At I Have Become Accustomed To Rejection, writer Roxane Gay blogs about her work (…)

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