Denis Johnson’s “Jesus’ Son” and my protestations at the alleged death of the short story
This is one of the seminal short story collections of the last few years (or, as some less charitable critics might put it, one of the last dying gasps of…
“Best of Space Squid” and supporting indie electronic journals/zines
http://www.spacesquid.com Good Lord, I am now a follower of the almighty Space Squid. This wonderful little bundle of binary (Best of Space Squid is only available as an ebook at…
Reading Log: ‘Thrice Fiction No. 9’, Free Literature, and the Pleasures and Irritations of Finding the Cutting Edge
http://www.thricefiction.com/ Thrice Fiction is a free lit mag. They publish some damn good stories, most of which can be defined as short-shorts (...not those kind of short-shorts) or longer flash…
Reading Log: Tin House 57 (WILD)
Tin House #15: Tin House: Wild, Volume 15, Number 1 by Win Mccormack (edt) I’m sold. A subscription to Tin house is definitely in my immediate future (as soon as…
Reading Log: Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine
Well, now I’m all out of Thom Jones books. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine is the last of Jones’s three published works. He’s got a couple loose stories…
2015 Reading Goals: January
I read 11 books this month and I’m happy with my selections. Well on the way to my goals for 2015. http://seanvansickel.com/2015/01/19/2014-revisited-with-metadata/
Thom Jones’s The Pugilist at Rest
This is my favorite book of the year, bar none. A few authors have left me disturbed after reading (Carver, Tobias Wolfe, John Darnielle) but Thom Jones literally brought tears…
Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”
I love short story collections. Whenever possible, I try to read a story (or a collection) by any given author before I take on one of their novels. The unique…
Podcast Roundup Part 1: Stories
(I love podcasts. I listen around 2 or 3 hours a day, between my commute, time at the gym, and household chores. I’ll be going over my favorites in the…