Archive for 2005

Kilter: 55 fictions

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

by John Gould ISBN: 0888012802

I don't like the terms flash fiction or sudden fiction, so I am reluctant to use them. But they are (more or less) conventionally understood and accepted

Magic for Beginners

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

by Kelly Link ISBN: 1931520151

This is Link's second collection of short stories. I loved the first one, Stranger Things Happen (now available as a free download) so when I saw she

Waiting for the End of the World

Monday, June 13th, 2005

by Richard Ross ISBN: 1568984669

This slim softcover volume is the size of an extra-wide trade paperback, unlike the hardcover coffee-table sized Museology. The two books share an interest in the unexpected

Freakonomics

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner ISBN: 006073132X

Levitt is an unusual and prize-winning economist. Dubner is a journalist who was assigned