Archive for March, 2009

McSweeney’s Issue 30

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Editor: Dave Eggers ISBN: 9781934781227 After years of internally debating the idea (I’d hate it, they are too clever by half and it’s annoying vs it really does seem like my kind of thing — maybe too much my kind of thing?) I subscribed to McSweeney’s. This is my first issue. I was very happy [...]

Finding Creatures & other stories

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

by C. June Wolf ISBN: 9780981065809 This collection of fifteen short stories surprised me. Individual stories — the ideas in them — stayed with me in ways I didn’t expect. There’s a museum security guard who transports otherwordly spirits, a discussion of hungry ghosts, an alien crash landing in the woods, and a kid who [...]