Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • Stonecoasting: John Crowley’s Novelties & Souvenirs

    It’s Stonecoast week–which is the MFA program I’m currently in–so in honor of the residency in Maine I’m at right now, this week’s Short Story Review is an annotation I wrote for my second semester. The book? John Crowley’s Novelties & Souvenirs. I’ll admit I have yet to read John Crowley’s masterpiece Little, Big. It’s…

  • Collection Review: In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss

    I hope everyone’s having a great holiday season, spending time with family and friends, finding time to sneak off and read when necessary for mental health, etc. And here’s hoping everyone’s keeping well, staying clear of cold weather colds, which I’ll admit has always been the hardest part of winter for me. Got some exciting…

  • McSweeney’s Issue 41

    As far as short fiction goes, McSweeney’s has always been one of my favorite magazines, partly because they don’t shy away from the fantastic. In the most recent issue, McSweeney’s 41, we have twelve short stories, four of which are written by Aboriginal Australian writers in a section highlighting Australian short fiction. The issue also…

  • The Secret History of Science Fiction

    There are nineteen stories in this collection as well as an introduction by the editors in which they discuss the “genrefication” of science fiction and its status as a lower form of literature, ascribed to it by readers and critics unfamiliar with the genre. Throughout the course of the book, before each story, quotes are…