Justin Taylor, one of the movers behind reputable local startups HTMLGiant ("the Internet literature magazine blog of the future") and
The Agriculture Reader, has previously edited an anthology called
The Apocalypse Reader and a Donald Barthelme tribute issue of
McSweeney's, and now reads from his debut collection. His short, funky-feverish stories, with their startling turns and unresolved textures, feel a bit like the slightly overwrought Tumblr blog which Don B. would surely maintain, were he alive today.