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THE KING'S COUNCIL

In which your Sovereign Majesty gets an earful on contemporary literature from your loyal councillors

A new, serial feature on The King's English. Editors Bill Bukovsan and Benjamin Chambers discuss specific examples of contemporary fiction to ... well they've got different motives, but shared standards. To see what measures up, click below. New posts will appear as they are finished. 

• Introduction to the King's Council, by Bill Bukovsan

  • 2007 Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses, Bill Henderson, editor.

    • Refresh, Refresh, by Benjamin Percy

    • Cocktail Hour, by Kate Braverman

    • Voices, by John Clayton

    • If a Stranger Approaches You about Carrying a Foreign Object with You onto a Plane, by Laura Kasischke

    • The Frank Orison, by Scott Geiger

    • The Lion's Mouth, by Ben Fountain

    • Dogged, by Risteard O'Keitinn

    • The Odds it Would be You, by Alice Mattison -- *New Post!

    • Refund, by Karen E. Bender -- *New Post!

    • Bye-Bye Larry, by Katherine Karlin -- In Media Res