Bookforum reviews Donald Barthelme's new collection of short stories, Flying to America: 45 More Stories. But only three of the stories are brand new.
Over at A Work In Progress, there's a post about John Cheever's short stories and their adaptations into theater pieces.
The Village Voice reviews Wanda Coleman's new collection, Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales. They also have a review of a collection I just read, Elizabeth Crane's You Must Be This Happy To Enter (it's in the sidebar).
Lastly, the Globe and Mail has a review of In the Mist, by Devon Code.
In the first story of Devon Code's debut collection, 10 pages unspool an hour of real time, offering a fully realized portrait of a mid-life drunk seeing, and denying, that he has destroyed his family. Herb, with bottle, comes home to a silent house and a goodbye note on the fridge. We see home as he does, our eyes his, settling on familiar things drained of meaning: the plastic daisy fridge magnet, orange ceramic flour and sugar crocks, the calendar with a note on today's date: "scrub the floor."
John:
I think you should link the "Collections Read" books in your sidebar to your reviews of the books.
Just a thought from a faithful reader.
Posted by: jessi | January 28, 2008 at 04:18 AM
Dear Lovely Faithful Reader,
Would love to do that except: (1) I link to amazon so I can earn a percentage when someone buys it. (2) I don't always offer reviews of everything I read.
If those things weren't true, it probably would be better to link to it, you're right, but I'm just trying to get by.
But thanks for the suggestions - I'm always trying to look for ways to improve BookFox.
Posted by: John Fox | January 28, 2008 at 04:39 PM
Cheever is great. "The Enormous Radio," "The Swimmer," and "The Country Husband" are some of my favorite short stories (probably top 20).
Posted by: Brent | February 02, 2008 at 12:01 AM