“When the bird landed on her foot the pop star was surprised.” This is an early collection of short fiction by Lydia Millet, whose books I recently found out were all on Hoopla, and I felt so rich in Millet, I over-borrowed. I was thinking this collection would be a lot like a lot of early collections, good, but no novels, and I am wrong. This is a really fun and great collection, and even better, short! Some of the stories: A recounting of the […]

“When he decided to leave New York, he chose Arizona because of some drone footage he’d seen.” Lydia Millet most previous novel A Children’s Bible was a much more explicit rendering of an apocalyptic future in which climate change had forever taken its toll on humanity, and all that was left was the shouting (mostly pillaging and murder). It was also a kind of retelling of A High Wind in Jamaica. This novel more or less addresses the same basic question: what’s to become of us? The difference […]