Lindsey Silken is a writer and editor living in Cambridge, MA. Her writing has appeared in 34th Parallel, New Orleans Review, Ampersand Review and elsewhere. Her blog "Books Made of Paper," where she tangentially discusses books and life, appears on HelloGiggles.com.
To read Ethan Rutherford’s The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories is to give oneself over to an improbable series of events which are immensely absorbing. At the same time that…