False Bingo 3/5 This is a solid, weird, sometimes scary, sometimes cutting short story collection. I didn’t really like Jemc’s other novel that I read, but I generally liked these stories. The collection begins with a really funny and weird meetup in a coffeeshop that’s punchy and wry. We get some stories about seemingly haunted houses, about weird relationships. Many of the stories are quite short, but some of the longer ones really put something down that is interesting to stick around with. Two come […]
He found her already seated at the coffee shop.
False Bingo by Jac Jemc
Separate Hours by Jonathan Baumbach
The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov
Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
Souls and Bodies by David Lodge