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| May 12, 2005 |
This chow ain't so tasty
 Hoping to capitalize on the unexpected runaway success of last year's Candyfreak (just released in paperback), Steve Almond's hysterical trip through America's candy factories, Algonquin Books has just published Almond's next book The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories. What's not mentioned anywhere on the book jacket, though, is that these stories are not new: They are merely a compilation of Almond's short stories from various literary magazines and other publications. Mind you, we're not knocking Almond's writing prowess (he's talented and a fine, upstanding member of the tribe), we're just feeling a little buyer's remorse. Ok, not really, the publishers do send us free review copies. But you get the metaphor. We hope. Ok, I'll shut up now.
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