Recent Reads

Evangelical Cockroach : the short stories of Jack Woodford
Sadly, the man who wrote such swinging, slashing assaults on the follies of the publishing industry in The Loud Literary Lamas of New York fails to get much traction as a fiction writer. The two or three stories I read from this volume all seem to aspire to O Henry's style of clever, punchy endings, but sadly the characters seem rather wooden and uninvolving. Since the book's due back to the interlibrary loan, I won't have an opportunity to investigate further.