Apparently, Foster turned a dive bar in NYC's east village into a local mecca for modern writers. Reading Nights there became quite the thing.... This book is a collection of shorts from the KGB Bar crowd.

I expect books like this to be fairly solid, with an occasionally brilliant piece nestled among promise-laden stuff which is nonetheless rough, young, needing of improvement via maturing of authors' skills. Not so here. Almost all of these pieces are very very good.

The material can get harsh, and in some cases a tad pornographic. If that doesn't bother you, this is a find.