Comments on: A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room

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Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:16:07 +0000

[...] “We drive in a fine and maniacal desert. We drink cheap wine and mine tastes bloody. But I don’t care. We see pink stars over glaring mesas and delicate red and white mini-marts and a hitchhiker dressed like Bing Crosby.” George Saunders’ first published short story, “A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room“. [...]

By: Miciah

Miciah — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:23:26 +0000

Hi Deb, glad you like the design. The glitch I think you’re talking about seems to happen only in Safari, and we haven’t had much luck rectifying it yet. In Safari when you shrink the veiwing window, the website doesn’t shrink proportionately. So everything looks great only so long as the veiwing window is the same size as the screen. Is that what you’re noticing? Any info you can give me about your browser will help as we work through the glitch. Thanks so much! –Miciah Bay Gault, managing editor

By: deb fleischman

deb fleischman — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:15:33 +0000

Hi. Great design! Love the colors. One glitch. The right side of the stories cuts off just before the end of the word. Any way to rectify?

By: windiciti

windiciti — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:45:16 +0000

Never never will I be able to string ordinary words with such dazzling, disturbing results. I hope Saunders is in a writers’ paradise with the best.

By: David Cooke

David Cooke — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:14:52 +0000

I am telling you, he is this century’s Tolstoy. My first exposure was on a rock ten yards off the Oregon Coast. Sea Oak handed to me by my lover. We laughed louder than the waves when I read “Grief is good. Grief is great, but too much grief, that’s just excessive.”