Squishy (Punchy Prose) Paperback – May 1, 2008

I drew a bath and opened this fun collection of short stories and read the entire book! The stories are eclectic and interesting. I loved it.

I received the book as a gift from the author. A really nice companion on my long Tube commutes throughout London. Its speciality is revealing the hidden world - not the dark world, not the rosy, actually, no fabrication - but things we almost instinctively avoid saying. It's the small, the embarrassing, the annoying. The pin we sit upon while we pretend to smile and to look important. Well said, fictive non-fiction.

This guy, Arjun Basu, is fantastic. This book was very interesting in content, but the true appeal was in the style of the writing. I just wish there were more stories in here. You should check out his one-liners on Twitter: [...]