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The latest Open Letter Newsletter is now available

As an update: the Vilnius Poker giveaway is now closed. We received a lot of submissions and will be sending out e-mails to the three winners (and all other entries) this afternoon.

Another book featured in the newsletter is Fonseca’s The Taker and Other Stories, which was recently reviewed on where Gwen Dawson had this to say:

The Taker and Other Stories, by Brazilian author Rubem Fonseca, is a collection of short stories examining death in all its forms: murder, suicide, road kill (animal and human), medical emergencies, sickness, and old age. One protagonist laments, ���Ĵ�ý�Man is a solitary animal, an unhappy animal, and only death can fix us.���Ĵ�ý� This thought echoes throughout this collection.

It was also reviewed by

Although Fonseca steadfastly refuses to discuss the meaning of his stories, he once said of himself, ���Ĵ�ý�Perhaps I am ���Ĵ�ý�The Taker.���Ĵ�ý� ���Ĵ�ý� He also says, ���Ĵ�ý�A writer should have the courage to show what most people are afraid to say.���Ĵ�ý� Fonseca���Ĵ�ý�s bitterly grim stories, mostly in the first person, show the skull beneath the skin in Rio���Ĵ�ý�s violent world. Tough to read, they analyze Rio���Ĵ�ý�s gratuitous criminality as a symptom of universal hatred among people of every class.

As mentioned in the for the rest of the month The Taker is available through our website for only