...I have to pass on listing the various short stories I've read this week, unless you want me to regurgitate the table of contents for the last half of Barry Hannah's Airships.
To tell the truth, I'm going to slow the short-story reading for a bit, even though I want to just continue with reading more Hannah. I snatched up a used copy of Hannah's collection High Lonesome at one of the used bookstores. Instead, while I edit my last couple of stories, I'm going to read American Son and Dogeaters, slated to be the 6th and 7th novels I've read in the past four years.
It used to be a point of pride with me to be able to brag about how many shorts I've read at the expense of novel reading. I've come to realize, since I devoured Nick Sagan's Idlewild trilogy and Ben Tanzer's Lucky Man, that I do just shove them down my literary throat. I go through novels like I go through showings of Scent of a Woman or A Few Good Men on cable TV--before I know it, I've spent a couple of hours--2 to 3 days in the case of novels--doing nothing but taking it all in. Case in point, I'm a third of the way into American Son, and if I did nothing else for the rest of the night, I know I could finish it.