"Differently Good"

[jazzfish]

So, hey. I was going to talk about how I've recently finished reading Teresa Nielsen Hayden's wonderful collection of essays, Making Book, and how it's clearly The Best Book Ever [beating out perennial contenders Agyar and The Phantom Tollbooth]. You can tell it's The Best Book Ever because it contains The Best Essay Ever: "God and I", ostensibly about TNH's excommunication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but with sacred underwear, the Book of Ether, and non-contingent being jokes thrown in as well. ["Why is John Wayne a non-contingent being? Because he can't act. (Sound of Saint Dominick being hit over the head with a rubber chicken.)"

Anyway, TNH has pointed out that Making Book cannot possibly be The Best Book Ever. That honor belongs solely to Atlanta Nights. As she says in her review, "The world is full of bad books written by amateurs. But why settle for the merely regrettable? Atlanta Nights is a bad book written by experts." The back cover blurbs are well worth reading, too . . . "Maybe once in a lifetime, there comes a book with such extraordinary characters, thrilling plot twists, and uncanny insight, that it comes to embody its time. ATLANTA NIGHTS is a book. --Adam-Troy Castro"

Atlanta Nights is available for purchase at LuLu.com. Or you can just bask in its reviews.