| The Ant King |
[Aug. 27th, 2008|07:38 am] |
 A lot of you are probably already aware of this recently published collection of stories from Ben Rosenbaum, The Ant King + other stories from Small Beer Press. For those who aren't, you might want to give it a look. The book is a cabinet of wonders, mixing genres, themes, and structures, all presented in a wonderfully clear and evocative writing style. I've been reading Rosenbaum's fiction since the publication of his chapbook Other Cities back in 2003. Since then, he's become one of those writers whose stories I actively seek out. His work ranges widely from surrealism to fabulation to other more idiosyncratic -isms and -ations that have no labels as they are original to his fiction alone. I'm never quite sure going in what I'm going to be reading, which is, of course, the beauty of it. The stories are also very intelligent, very thoughtful, and shot through with a healthy sense of humor. Small Beer is offering the book now as a free download under a Creative Commons license along with some of their other great books http://www.lcrw.net/cc/index.htm This book is one that I believe you will want to go back to many times, and so I'd buy a hard copy as well. Small Beer makes beautiful books and this one's available in both hardcover and trade paperback. http://snurl.com/3k7o2 |
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I read about half the book at Ben's the other weekend and it is real good. He's definitely a comer.
There's quite a few really great, younger short story writers around now. It's a drag, isn't it? | |
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