Its perfect reading weather this time of year, dreary, cold, with short days, and I find myself more and more huddled in my cat-abused chair by the fireplace. I just finished the riveting Here, Bullet, by Brian Turner, which is so accomplished, so clean, and yet moving – I dreamed about being in Iraq after I read it. It just impressed itself into my mind like a brand. And, the wonderful new journal The Fairy Tale Review (www.fairytalereview.com) – I keep reading and re-reading and always find something new. It’s not an academic journal, it’s full of fanciful prose and poetry by the likes of Kim Addonizio, Aimee Bender, Francine Prose…there’s hardly a bad piece in the whole thing, and the journal looks like one of Andrew Lang’s Blue (Red, Crimson, etc) Fairy Books. It’s like I wished something like this to exist and bang, it came into being. Anyway, buy it – $10 is steep for most lit mags, but this one is worth it.