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Letters to Wendy's by Joe Wenderoth - This is exactly the kind of clever that I hate. Pithy comment cards. I had no idea what it was and was just confused and unamused until I Googled, not I am annoyed and unamused. 1 star

Scarlotti and the Sinkhole by Padget Powell - Funny, absurd, sad, really gross. An entertaining slice of drunken, horny, injured Florida redneck life. 4-stars

Up the Old Goat Road by Dawn Raffel
I rarely like microfiction, and I don't like it here. I don't know why I read this, and am not nearly invested enough to care. 1.5 stars.

Short Talks by Anne Carson. Brilliant glorious prose poems. 5-stars

"On Hedonism: Beauty makes me hopeless. I don’t care why anymore I just want to get away. When I look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my legs around it. When I watch you dancing there is a heartless immensity like a sailor in a dead-calm sea. Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls."

The Sound Gun by Matthew Darby. I try to judge a book at least partly on whether I think the author achieved what he set out to do. I think Darby did that. I hated the pretentious heavy-handed approach and can name a dozen other pieces, stories and novels, that I think told essentially the same story to the same end and did it much better, and which I definitely got more from. He ain't no Vonnegut. 2-stars