Gruelish

Paste Magazine has a brief review of SoT favorite George Singleton's new story collection, Drowning in Gruel:

Singleton’s best stuff—including the sly “The Novels of Raymond Carver,” starring an English professor gone to seed who teaches a popular college course that requires no reading (Carver never wrote a novel)—mixes gleefully detailed prose with quirky insights and unexpected, epiphanies. Many take place inside the pool hall, where bartender Jeff serves up chili-dogs and tells those suffering from low spirits not to worry, that “he’d met more desperate people in Gruel.”