>The Short Review

>Here’s a magazine/website with an original premise: reviews of short story collections and anthologies. Here’s how the founder describes the project: The Short Review…

>Virginia Festival of the Book

>VaBook is coming! The Virginia Festival of the Book 2008 will be March 26-30 and it looks like a great lineup. The preliminary schedule…

>"A Bright Shining Lie"

>I’ve been hearing nothing but wonderful things about Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke and the only thing that’s prevented me from reading it already…

>NaJuReMoNoMo

> January is National Just Read More Novels Month. I bet you didn’t know that, but it’s true. First I read about it at…

>The New Yorker Story of the Year

>In what may be a sign for the Iowa Caucuses later this week, the voting for Story of the Year was extremely close. In…

>Happy New Year!

>Happy 2008 and, also, Happy Bloggiversary to Perpetual Folly, which turns 3 today.

>The New Yorker: "Year’s End" by Jhumpa Lahiri

>Is there any doubt why I waited until today (the last day of the year) to comment on this story? It’s also not online,…