“The Bone Game” Game
Speaking of my column, that Charles D’Ambrosio short story can be found online here.
Seattlest did a post about D’Ambrosio earlier this week, and when I checked on it again today I was thrilled to see it had 13 comments. (All these people! Reading fiction! And posting their thoughts about it online!) Then I read the comments. (Scroll down.) Turns out they’re all surrounding the thoughts of one guy who’s posted to say he prefers reading his iBook and RSS Reader to reading a physical magazine. (To which I say: what a jackass.)
So… howzabout you smart slog readers read D’Ambrosio’s story and actually post your thoughts about it here in the comments field of this post. Loved it/hated it is fine, more in-depth critique is great, being daring is encouraged, disagreeing with me is most certainly welcome. Show off your writing chops. I’m always in the market for new book reviewers.
As the author of that post (and a participant in that thread), I must tell you I wept for poor Mr. D'Ambrosio that his achievements in fiction were overshadowed by someone making stupid criticisms of the New Yorker.
Charles D'Ambrosio, I salute your achievement and look forward to reading your book.