Author: Alex Irvine
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A Funny
From the Eschaton blog: Both Virginia and Tennessee have passed bills allowing people to carry a concealed handgun into establishments that serve alcohol. (It turns out that Plaxico Burress was a freedom fighter with a bad sense of timing and place. Who knew?)
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Viking Jesus Rides a Raptor
Either that, or it’s a T. Rex and Our Savior is 20 feet tall. There were giants in the earth in those days…(yes, I have confused my testaments–on purpose!)… (image seen in this Gawker comments thread)
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In Which I Crowdsource a Syllabus
Gentle readers: if you were to teach a course in the American novel, and you had for reasons of your own decided to use only novels that run approximately 200 pages or less, what would be your top ten? I’m particularly interested in what you think is the best recent work at that length.
Crooked House Fictions 