litfarm

From the litfarm vault,  mouldering away in my drafts list, here’s a new short story in The Guardian from Lorrie Moore. This was a much better post before Obama got elected.

Foes, by Lorrie Moore.

I haven’t been posting much since my son was born. And I didn’t read any of the Booker short list. I know, I’m fired. Anyway.

Lately I’ve been reading Joyland, an online literary journal that publishes high quality short fiction (on the internet! I know!). Here’s a recent story made up entirely of text salvaged from the purple prose spammers use to trick email filters. Clever.

Some People Swallow the Universe Like a Pill.

A short story by one of my favorite authors. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Enjoy.