The Brookside Review, unlike The Paris Review, did not start out as a cover for a CIA cloak-and-dagger operation in Europe. This collection is rather an outgrowth of the Brookside Writers Workshop in Berkeley, California. Flowing from nine different writers, the pieces range from short stories to excerpts from novels, from poems to essays, from slice-of-life vignettes to a short play. They take you on a magical ride through time and...