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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

March 26, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: David Lodge, Eudora Welty, False Bingo, fatelessness, Imre Kertesz, jac jemc, jonathan baumbach, separate hours, Sergei Dovlatov, souls and bodies, the golden apples, the suitcase

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:157 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: David Lodge, Eudora Welty, False Bingo, fatelessness, Imre Kertesz, jac jemc, jonathan baumbach, separate hours, Sergei Dovlatov, souls and bodies, the golden apples, the suitcase ·
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Family life is out.

April 28, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I don’t know if Jonathan Baumbach is a good person. I do know that his character in “The Squid and the Whale” is one of the most convincing, horrifying, and fully realized portrayals of a kind of dad that I have ever seen. He confirms everything I would have thought about every contemporary writer who has more talent than success (at least in their own minds). I also never knew if he was any good as a writer. His kind of work is the kind […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: babble, jonathan baumbach

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:117 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: babble, jonathan baumbach ·
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