At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dan Fante looks at P.G. Sturges’s Shortcut Man and makes some observations about literary parents and children along the way.

• New fiction from Eugene Lim: an excerpt from a novel tentatively titled Strange Twins.

• Via Skylight Books: one Seattle bookstore wrestles with the questions raised by Amazon’s move towards becoming a publisher.

• Twenty years later, revising the aesthetics of Dell’s surreal horror imprint Abyss.

• The Stranger has some nice things to say about The New York Tyrant.