reading notes

by Joe Meno
ISBN: 9780393067965
I discovered Joe Meno earlier this year, reading Demons in the Spring and later on Bluebird Used to Croon in the Choir. Both are collection of short stories, which I loved.
Meno isn’t new to novel writing, though this most recent book is the first novel of his I’ve read. I was curious [...]

by Michael Czyzniejewski
ISBN: 9780979312373
The stories in this collection — and there a lot of ‘em, two dozen in about two hundred pages — reveal over and over the impossibility of real people’s lives. Our lives, only not exactly us, just us enough to recognize, wonder, and wince.
Many of them have the kind of weirdness that [...]

by Brian Evenson
with illustrations by Zak Sally
ISBN: 9781566892254
In one of those chains of connected reading, I decided to look for this book after reading things Matt Bell said about Evenson; I was reading Bell’s website because I really liked his story in Monkeybicycle 6.
Evenson writes intensely creepy, very good stories. Warped and wrong and [...]

edited by Steven Seighman
ISSN: 15470504
It seems sensationalist to mention sex, twins, and midgets… but I just did. Yes, they are all mentioned, and two out of three are star characters and a recurring story topic. It may seem even more strange to say the stories in this issue really aren’t lurid, but really they aren’t. [...]