Chronicle that is. In her San Francisco Chronicle review of Andrei Codrescu’s latest book, Jenny Hendrix writes, “Whatever Gets You Through the Night nominally includes only one of the 1,001 stories that, told over several nights by Sheherezade, keep the king curious enough to spare her. But Codrescu’s is not so much a retelling as a treatise on or demonstration of the Nights’ mechanics; in his hands, this story becomes almost infinite.”

She continues to praise Codrescu’s writing and story-telling, saying, “Like Borges before him, Codrescu shows the borders between fiction and truth to be ragged, if not nonexistent. A kind of linguistic alchemy occurs between word and flesh….Although much of the book is dedicated to, and may be read as, a serious investigation of storytelling and its place in our future (our own iSheherezade), Codrescu never loses sight of the fact that these stories are meant to be ‘entertainments’ above all.”

Read the complete review here.