"New Bad News is a collection of smart, cynical micro-fictions about falling out of love with America's Hollywood dream. Its deadpan humor and ironic touches will ring especially true to Gen-X and X-ennial readers. There's an undeniable "cool factor" to the collection; it's the sort of book that dares the reader to get all its pop-culture references. NBN is organized into five sections: "Echo Park" is a Calvino-Prize-winning series of micro-fictions...