Hobart #4

Hobart #4

by Ryan Boudinot (Editor), Aaron Burch (Editor)

Guest edited by Ryan Boudinot, Hobart #4 features a diverse collection of stories from the absurd to realist, from first time writers to short shorts by Rick Moody and Stephen Elliott. Aimee Bender's "Crew" bookends the issue in two parts, about a devil and skeleton rowing naked families across a lake of fire, inspired by Marcel Dzama's cover art.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Ryan Boudinot is the author of the novels BROKEN UTOPIA, BLUEPRINTS OF THE AFTERLIFE, and MISCONCEPTION and the story collections THE OCTOPUS RISES and THE LITTLEST HITLER. His work has been shortlisted for the PEN/USA Award and the Philip K Dick Award and published in translation in Germany, Spain, and the Czech Republic.

Reviews

[Jason Jordan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a pretty good issue of Hobart, but #6 and #9 are still my favorites. In this issue I particularly like Bender's "Crew," J. Robert Lennon's "The Pins," Elliott's "Plane Crash Stories," and Rosovsky's "Patriot Nation."