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About a dozen randomly selected stories that the “State of Short Fiction” panel might not call slipstream and that don’t have any SFnal or fantastical intrusions but that I like and that I think feel kinda slipstreamy

3 o'clock, May 4, 2005

  1. Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams (non-fiction)
  2. A Walk on the Wild Side, Nelson Algren
  3. I See By My Outfit, Peter S. Beagle (non-fiction)
  4. Copenhagen, Michael Frayn
  5. Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
  6. Looking for History, Anna Guillermoprieto (non-fiction)
  7. “The Demons Tormenting Untersturmführer Hans Otto Graebner,” Robert Girardi
  8. Dispatches, Michael Herr (non-fiction)
  9. The History of Bombing and Exterminate All the Brutes, Sven Lindqvist (non-fiction)
  10. The Invention of Love, Tom Stoppard
  11. “Shore Leave,” Tom Waits
  12. Pontius Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man, Ann Wroe (non-fiction)

Comments

I can see some interlibrary loans coming up in my future.

—— Jon Hansen, 3:28 PM, Wednesday, May 4, 2005

David, have you read Matthew Derby's Super Flat Times? I keep evangelizing about that book.

—— Alan, 10:38 AM, Thursday, May 5, 2005

I haven't. I'll keep an eye out for it.

It's interesting how much time the Amazon reviews spend talking about genre. :)

—— David Moles, 3:39 PM, Thursday, May 5, 2005