Well, it's 1:23 in the morning, and we've all had a full week of lounging on couches, playing too many videogames, feeling that giddy too-light feeling of nothing left to write, nothing left to grade, and no more Paul Yachnin articles to read. Submissions are closed, the backlog is cleared, and the ALR office sits mostly empty. Some of us have already busted out our typewriters and our Lite-Brites so we can write again, because writing is that kind of disease, the kind that gets under your skin after a few days. But all that stuff, it's neither here nor there. Because we're doing a book club.
The books are as follows:
Raymond Carver - Collected Stories
Bret Anthony Johnston - Corpus Christi
Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
Wells Tower - Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Tobias Wolff - Our Story Begins
The theme is first short story collections. The books, they're pretty fabulous. This noise starts now*.
*Or in a few days. Whatever.
