I truly didn’t know what I was getting into when I requested this book.  I wasn’t aware that there was a series of drug-related short fiction books. (Yes, I am naive enough to think that this might have been about things that move quickly!) WHat attracted me to the book, though, were some of the Continue reading

I tend to be wary of books, particularly fiction, by people who have achieved fame in some other form.  I am particularly wary of books by actors – I’ve read too many that seems to have been sold on the actor’s name and not the quality of the work. And I really didn’t want this Continue reading

I’m not sure if there’s a term for fans of the works of Franz Kafka (Kafkaites? Kafkers?) but if there is one, I would proudly bear the label. In fact, I have an unusually large collection of books by and about Kafka, so a collection of ‘selected prose’ such as this is generally not new Continue reading