READ JON DAMBACHER!

Los Angeles writer Jon Dambacher sent over some books that I’m really enjoying.

Sour Candies, a slick-looking collaboration with painter Eliot Benjamin, has a lot of really excellent short stories (and images) that remind me of the “dirty realism” stuff popularized in the mid-late 1980s (Frederick Barthelme, Lydia Davis, Charles Baxter), which I love. It’s a book one should definitely seek out, for it looks as nice and as strange as it reads.

Dumacher’s latest, a poetry novella entitled Green, is available now on Amazon.com. Check it out!