The problem usually is finding the common thread. Short story collections are a bugger to review. I’m not sure I’d want to live there but if I did I can see myself running across interesting things and saying, “Oh, that’s nice,” or vice versa. It’s the same with “nice,” which I also overuse nice can have negative connotations the last thing your wife wants to hear when she walks in wearing a new outfit is, “You look nice, Dear.” Even more confusing I would expect is when something gets referred to as “nice and interesting.” Frog City Updike–the place, not the book–sounds like a nice, interesting place. One of the words I use too often in reviews is “interesting,” but I never really make it clear whether a particular word piques my interest or holds it. Arthur Graham, Big Al’s Books and Pals Frog City Updike never would’ve been without Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America, the book that showed me just how loose I could get with form.
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