Oxford American: Ten Great Very Short Books Picked by Kevin Brockmeier

I don't think the website includes Brockmeier's article yet, but I just got the latest Oxford American, courtesy of the editors, and it includes a fascinating list of books under 100 pages, in alpha order by author, that Brockmeier really likes. I'm on it, but that's not why it's fascinating--it's fascinating to me because Aira shows up yet again in my life, three times in less than a week, and because Monterroso is in our book of weird, and because so many of the others I hadn't heard of but sound really interesting. I'm not going to reproduce Brockmeier's text about each, but here's the list.I've only read a version of 4 and also 8, so if anyone has read the others (besides 9, which is a real stinker), please give us some intel!1- Cesar Aria - An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter2 - Bohumil Hrabal - Closely Watched Trains3 - Rebecca Lee - Bobcat4 - Augusto Monterroso - The Black Sheep and Other Fables5 - Grant Morrison - We36 - Ben Rice - Poppy and Dingan7 - Emma Straub - Fly-Over State8 - Mark Twain - The Diaries of Adam and Eve9 - JeffV - The Situation10 - Alejandro Zambra - Bonsai

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