BOOKS - Everything Flows
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Everything Flows
Author: James Greer
Year: December 2, 2012
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.8 MB
Language: English
Year: December 2, 2012
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.8 MB
Language: English
Coming September 2013, Everything Flows is the first collection of short fiction by novelist and screenwriter James Greer. Pre-order at http: curbsidesplendor.bigcartel.com product everything-flows-by-james-greerThe eighteen stories range from short and surreal to long and surreal, but all share a consistency of intent: to fracture traditional narrative tropes and reassemble the shards into coherent, if occasionally undulant and meandering forms (see: the title). Greer mixes anachronistic pseudo-history and unserious serious digressions into pop culture, pop physics, pop philosophy and pop music (see: the title), to arrive at something both universal in scope and intensely personal, twisting language(s) into sometimes-strange shapes to devise new ways of looking at familiar things.Everything Flows also features the art of Guided by Voices front man Robert Pollard. Besides being known as one of today's most prolific song-writers, Mr. Pollard's irrespressible creativity has been an inspiration to many. His stunning color collages make a fantastic compliment to Mr. Greer's writing. and "James Greer writes within the grand tradition of American postmodern, pessimistic, philosophic geniuses. Like William Gass or Guy Davenport, he unites sly humor, erudition, and a certain classical cast of mind, as aware of Heraclitus as he is of Teenage Fanclub. These stories are remarkable. They're also a total freaking blast. and " - Mathew Specktor, author, American Dream Machine, senior editor, Los Angeles Review of Books and "Dazzling, swirling, ridiculous and disconcerting. James Greer doesn't follow paths, he's a thing of the air. and " - Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
