-- Originally reviewed at Here There Be Books. --I don't really read that many short stories, if only because I'm busy reading longer stories. But this book is less a collection of short stories and more a collection of stories whose purpose is to make you think about fantastic things and maybe expa...
Fabulous! My review is here: http://cineastesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-stories-for-nighttime-and-some.html - view my book photo here: http://cineastesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-photo-stories-for-nighttime-and.html
Raymond Chandler once said that a "good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled." When I first came to read Ben Loory's stories five years ago, I began to see just what Chandler meant. For me, these stories were, and are, a revelation: in some ways so modern, their brevity suited to our cont...