“Chinatown,” by Greg Van Eekhout is the sort of amusing flight of fancy you might have while enjoying your favorite bowl of soup noodles in Chinatown — if the broth has been simmering for 800 years. And evil Belgians might send their attack monkeys at any moment. And there’s way more than five Chinese brothers. What’s an innocent foodie to do?
Extracted from “Tales From the City of Seams,” originally in Polyphony 4. Read on Podcastle. Tasted on my iPod Touch.
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Still working my way through the Podcastle archives, I enjoyed a series of four fables by Peter S. Beagle that were podcast last fall. My favorite was “The Fable of the Octopus,” about an octopus who wanted to see god. His ideas about god are about as good as your typical human New Age book. Since I like that sort of thing, and am sometimes tempted to perpetrate my own half-baked ideas, I was charmed.
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