by Jeff Fleischer
A few weeks ago, Shepherd asked me to write up some of my favorite short-story collections. With Animal Husbandry (and Other Fictions) available for preorder wherever you buy books, the site also asked me to pick a few of my favorite books I read in the past year, and I picked works by Daniel Mason, Laurent Binet, and Peter Beagle. Here’s the article. An excerpt:
At its core, this is a fictional biography of a house in the New England woods, showing how the lives and actions of its residents echo through three centuries. It’s a book in which all the component parts are brilliant on their own, with different tones and even formats, but they still form a meaningful and narratively satisfying whole.
