Bronze Medalist, The Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).

Following up on the success of their first anthology of aphorisms, Short Flights, editors James Lough and Alex Stein have returned with a new volume that expands on the theme of aphorisms to include other short form writing and concrete poetry and prose from several of the world's leading, award-winning, and best-sellling writers in the genre including Charles Simic, Lydia Davis, Sarah Manguso, Jane Hirschfield, Joy Harjo, Yahia Labadidi, Claudia Rankine, and Stephen Dobyns.

This book, a compilation of what feel like urgent text messages from some of the 21st century's best writers, operates as an early warning system to the future of literary art. Crucial.

--David Shields, Author of Reality Hunger

Short Circuits is a knockout beautiful book full of wonderful stuff that makes you laugh, smile, shake your head, admire writers, feel touched, honored, charmed, surprised, a little threatened, a lot thrilled. Lough & Company have done a brilliant job.

--Frederick Barthelme, Author of There Must Be Some Mistake