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For The Shorties
Summer Book Quarterly
by Patrick Rapa
Which brings us to why we decided to put short stories under the spotlight (well, maybe it's more of a heatlamp) in our Summer Book Quarterly: We like them. We read them. We print them in our annual Fiction Contest issue. We heart short stories times ten.

Short Stories
Short reviews of recent short story collections
No One Belongs Here More Than You | Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money | Next Stop Hollywood: Short Stories Bound for the Screen | A Thousand Deaths | Russian Lover and Other Stories | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 | Throw Like A Girl | Male of the Species

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Eeeee Eee Eeee (novel), Bed (short stories)
by Will Dean
From the pen of another writer, the surrealistic elements in Tao Lin's debut novel Eeeee Eee Eeee (published at the same time as his short story collection Bed) could have become something absurd, magically realistic and beautiful.

Fiction
Short reviews of recent fiction books.
A Thousand Splendid Suns | New England White | One for Sorrow, Two for Joy | The Interloper | Dedication | The Raw Shark Texts | The Girl with the Golden Shoes | On Chesil Beach

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Falling Man
by Matt Hotz
Underworld and Libra, written more than a quarter of a century after the events that inspired them, unravelled slowly over hundreds of pages. Falling Man, however, is a slender volume published less than six years after 9/11. With so little difference between the now and the then, there's little room to offer the insights and gradual, realistic development of his other historically based novels.

Non-Fiction
Short reviews of recent non-fiction books.
Macedonia | Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style | Goth: Undead Subculture | The Manual: A True Bad Boy Explains How Men Think, Date and Mate — and What Women Can Do to Come Out on Top | Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River | The View from the Upper Deck: The Funniest Collection of Sports Satire Ever | Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song | Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South

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The Reagan Diaries
by Rodney Anonymous
You might think that reading the diary of Ronald "the bombing begins in five minutes" Reagan — a man so completely bat-shit crazy that he, despite having spent the entirety of WWII in Hollywood, once told Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal that he had personally helped to liberate the concentration camps — would be like suddenly finding oneself on Charles Manson's Christmas card list.