On the kitchen counter at my workplace rests a seemingly endless stack of shitty books about eye makeup, fairy-tale weddings, and body building. It was there, among that pop publishing detritus, that I found Indecision, Benjamin Kunkel’s (n+1) first novel. The book was an advance uncorrected proof, prefaced with a note from Random House VP [...]

Simon lapped at some water in his bowl this morning. Somehow a fly had gotten into the apartment, and it was buzzing around his tail, alighting on his fuzzy pink ears. He stared at the fly disdainfully.
“Simon,” I said to him, “If you want it to leave you alone, you’ll have to kill it.”
Dan [...]