Back Catalog » The Evil B. B. Chow
- April 2005/April 2006
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- ISBN: 1565125290
The B. B. Chow Pu Pu Platter Sampler
Click a story title to read an excerpt. (Excerpts appear in the window below.)
- The Evil B. B. Chow
- The Soul Molecule
- Appropriate Sex
- I Am As I Am
- A Happy Dream
- Lincoln, Arisen
- The Idea of Michael Jackson's Dick
- The Problem of Human Consumption
- Wired for Life
- Summer, As in Love
- Larsen's Novel
- Skull
Reviews
The Los Angeles Times
"...declares an enduring commitment to fiction.... deceptively light, hip slices of life oozing so much instant gratification that it's hard to resist gulping them all down in one greedy session."
The New York Times
"It's hard not to be captivated by Almond's slangy, salty voice and his winning, often openly discombobulated protagonists... Is Almond just out for shocks and giggles? Extended immersion dispels this notion, as the loosey-goosey idiom of Almond's typical narrator ends up easily stretching to encompass a nice swath of the American experience."
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"...one thing for sure—he's got a distinctive, funny and consistent voice... Almond also has plenty to say, and much less cynically, about love and the way "we close our eyes and let our lovers step toward us, through the fading hydrangeas, the impenetrable dusk." His non-melodramatic insights about a man's fragile reckoning with his family is pure joy to a reviewer overdosed on familial sturm und drang... [B. B. Chow] should be on your bookshelf."
Self-review
"Somerville's crown prince of cock lit returns with another blast of puerile sanctimony. Yawn."