Incredibly versatile story collection. Unavoidably kind of fitfull as wel. There is some Kelly Link, some (not really accomplished) Borges, Calvino (could fit right in to his Cosmicomics), Steven Millhauser, Dexter Palmer, future crime, SF, Chinese history, and a Deadwood kind of story. 
 Here are my indidual ratings (the longest stories score generally the highest) 
 The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species 2,5/5 
 State Change 3/5 
 The Perfect Match 4/5 
 Good Hunting 2/5 
 The Literomancer 3,5/5 
 Simulacrum 4,5/5 
 The Regular 5/5 
 The Paper Menagerie 4,5/5 
 An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition 3/5 
 The Waves 5/5 (one of the best short stories ever read) 
 Mono no aware 4,5/5 
 All the Flavors 5/5 
 A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel 3,5/5 
 The Litigation Master and the Monkey King 4,5/5 
 The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary ?