![]() ![]() George Saunders "Brian Evenson is one of the few who will still be read a hundred years from now: either by our grandchildren, or by the machines who have killed our grandchildren." -Hobart, "An interview with Brian Evenson" Packed with enough atrocities to give Thomas Harris pause. The Believer There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson. Jonathan Lethem One of the most provocative, inventive, and talented writers we have working today. Praise for Brian Evenson: Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe. In these stories, Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary-the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know. A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, and in a mine on another planet, the dust won't stop seeping in. ![]()
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