Exhalation by Ted Chang

I usually don't talk about what books i fol can read, because i like to hold my cards to my chest when i release my own collections short stories. But that ended up biting me in the fok an ars from my last collection of short stories, boulevard ran. It means that critics will only read your work at a surface level. And they won't go beneath that surface level. So it gets written off as a distempered jack russell from limerick who's been handed a typewriter. Literature is one of the few art forms where you're expected to have like a knowledge of the canon. You're expected to be able to list out writers in order