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Somerville Spins Tales of the Future and End
You may recognize Patrick Somerville as the author of The Cradle, a realistic and often comical exploration of contemporary fatherhood. Little in that novel would prepare for you the amazing stories in Somerville’s second story collection, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature. These tales are mostly speculative fiction-science fiction, surrealism, absurdism, and fantasy blended into a metafictional continuum.
Read my review in the November 20, 2010, edition of The Boston Globe.
You can buy The Universe in Miniature in Miniature at Barnes & Noble.
Visit Patrick Somerville’s website.
Oddest Messages From Editors
“I hope you’re OK with your breakdown. This poem takes me back to mine.” He accepted the poem. I wasn’t having a breakdown.
–from Ira Lightman
“It would be an abrogation of my editing duties to agree to accept work casually over email — anyone could be using your name and a keyboard from, oh, say a prison cell.”
–from Elda Stone
“I also require a phone conversation to get a sense of the places from which you view the world, and to make sure you aren’t typing from some minimum security facility and using poor Joe Peschel’s name.”
–from Poor Joe Peschel
