Update: Steve draws our attention to the greatest new gift on the block: a blog currently translating Kafka's Diaries.
Furthermore, fans of David Foster Wallace should definitely take a gander at Michael Ives, if they haven't done so already, namely this:
His partner, the writer Mary Caponegro, is perhaps better well know for The Star Cafe
...as well as these two genuinely haunting short story collections:
In the words of Foster Wallace with regard to the latter: "Modifiers that fit this book include: baroque, eerie, elegant, funny, good and thoroughly upsetting." To which I might have added goth and fragile. Well that's enough images for a while. The walls did seem a little bare.
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