Short Takes

Brief observations about books—IKE’s and others—with occasional commentary on the world around me.

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I Am Tom Waits!

“If you want to read a story version of Being John Malkovich transferred to the mind of Mr. Waits, here you go, minus the scheming plot.”—The Florida Review (Online)

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Short Story Month

May is Short Story Month.

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The Victim

P.D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer in this story from 1973.

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Brown Morning

A parable of the rise of fascism and how easily people give up their rights.

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Blurbs

Simon & Schuster publisher Sean Manning has decided to no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books.