[Book Review]<\/p>\n
Reviewed by Sterling Preston<\/p>\n
YOU CAN\u2019T HELP but love the idea. Think COMETBUS for the New Yorker crowd. Sort of, anyway.<\/p>\n
A group of good people up in San Francisco put their heads, funds & resources together to sift through slush piles of fiction, find the ones they liked and publish them in an anthology. The primary requirement seems to be that the authors were NOT entrenched in academia. Reason being, there\u2019s quite enough of that being bought and sold already, thank you.<\/p>\n
The result is an interesting collection of short fiction by unknown authors, most of whom can put together a pretty damn decent short story.<\/p>\n
Not every story is perfect\u2026 not every story is even necessarily all that good. There are treasures within the covers, however\u2026 stories by \u201chitherto unknown\u201d authors. Some of it is entertaining, some of it is pure poetry\u2026 and yeah\u2026 some of it is going to make you have to think.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll spare you a watered down version of the book\u2019s introduction, because it\u2019s one of the most inspiring pieces in the book. It explains what the people at No Record Press set out to do, and why they attempted such a thing. (You can actually read it on their website.)<\/p>\n
My personal favorite story from the book is something called \u201cfrom I\u2019M HERE TO MAKE YOU SMILE\u201d by Andy Darley, but then I\u2019m not you. You\u2019ll probably have your own favorite.<\/p>\n
Both Christopher Cole\u2019s \u201cFlesh\u201d and Sarah Todd\u2019s \u201cSeventy-Eight Days in the City\u201d are stand-outs \u2013 beautifully written with skillful uses of imagery.<\/p>\n
Anyway, if you do nothing else, go to no-record.com\/stories\/motivationunabridged.html and see for yourself if this is something you\u2019d want to support. [no-record.com] SPa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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