The Ability to Forget by Norman Levine

This book didn't do much for me. It's a collection of short stories, all of which are decent stories by themselves, but as a collection it's too repetitive. Almost all the stories centre around what feels like the same character, who is clearly based on the author. They don't contain much in the way of plot, focusing more on bittersweet melancholic description. Again, this is perfectly fine, but it gets repetitive when the whole collection is like this. One story stands out: "The Man with the Notebook", where the subjects of a writer's stories all die shortly after he writes about them. But all the other stories are easily forgettable.