Albert Goldbarth's new novel "Pieces of Payne" is just 83 pages long. But following the story of two friends in a bar, talking about relationships are 118 pages of footnotes. They cover everything from astronomy, and Charles Dickens, to the causes of cancer and the dozens of stories of people who have found wedding rings in the stomach of a fish. Goldbarth is an award winning poet and essayist. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr the book is hard to categorize. Albert Goldbarth will read from his novel, "Pieces of Payne" at the Ruminator Bookstore in St Paul, tonight at 7:30