From the inbox

This is the best email I've received in YEARS!

"Dear Friends of American Short Fiction,

As the year draws to a close, we are putting the finishing touches on our first issue of 2009, our biggest and most ambitious to date: nine authors ranging from the renowned Joyce Carol Oates to the emerging writers Rachel B. Glaser and Amelia Gray. . .

Can't wait to see it!

AWP - Chicago 2009

Anybody going?

Totally

I've started reading the comics again because I can't stand waking up to real news anymore. This is today's F Minus.

One Sentence

Kind of awesome:

One Sentence: True Stories Told in One Sentence

Friday funny

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

This makes me wish we had done a musical while we were all in Texas.

Happy Cyber Monday?

It is the time of year when people start making lists. Even though the "best of" lists only cover a year (and some years are more fruitful then others), I always get sucked in. I always read the list and look for new voices, female voices, young voices, voices that aren't Roth. I sometimes regress and decide that the literati is something moldy and obsessed with 9/11. Then, I root for my favorite authors and try to figure out who made my list this year.

So here's the NY Times books of the times (they will narrow this list to 10 on Wednesday).


But more importantly who made your list this year? Or if you are like me and have a three year delay (hello! who can afford hardbacks?), what's the best book you've read recently?

UPDATE: Here are NPR's Lists