one of those things where it's like, fuck, i almost had this idea a while back.

but it's just splendidly done.

SHORT TAKES ON BOOKS THAT DON’T EXIST.

eg,

Workshop
by Nick Lowey
MFA students writing—and failing to write—form the subject of Lowey’s debut, a collection of linked stories that mines the liminal space between earnest frustration and the grinding tedium of endless failure. Other writers have trod this turf with less success, but Lowey displays an enviable judiciousness and a keen eye: a box of cheap wine is described as “a store-brand Lethe, a vermillion river of solace and forgetting.”