Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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| Late last night, we recovered a few old friends who'd been M.I.A. |
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| Behold T. C. Boyle's East is East, my father's college copy of The Sun Also Rises, and my first copy of A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley. I acquired the Exley while employed at a temporary remainders-only bookstore and "gulped it down," as Rushdie said of Pynchon's Vineland because "it beats getting drunk." |
Among many others, then, we have The Brothers K by David James Duncan, "Errand" from Raymond Carver, "The Overcoat II" by T. C. Boyle, and the American healthcare system by Nikolai Gogol according to Molly McGhee, author of "America's Dead Souls." Dare to tell me that one of these does not belong.
