Someone e-mailed and asked if I record every book I’ve read in a month on my recommended reading list. Not by a long shot. Nor, if you’ll note, do I put down entire books of essays or short stories, unless I like everything in the volume. If I were to put everything I read on the list, it would go on for pages. I read at least one daily newspaper and maybe a dozen or more magazines as well as novels, non-fiction, anthologies, and collections. Lots of reading, but only a few things to recommend. Here are the recommendations from my March reading: Beagle, Peter S., “El Regalo,” reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One, edited by … Read entire article »