Outspoken Authors Flume, Book 38, (Paperback)

<p><b>Brian Evenson's fiction maps the forbidden territories of genre, innovation, transgression, and literature. With one foot in the avant-garde and the other in the pulp tradition, Evenson's stark vision is never comfortable, always provocative, and, more often than one might think, darkly amusing.</b></p><br><p>The new novella "Flume" is a workplace comedy, of sorts. Is Flume a scientific foundation, a man, or a pair of shoes poking out from behind a curtain? Is Davies (or is it Davis?) up for a promotion, ready to end it all, or perhaps both?</p><br><p>"Prairie," a prose poem about the haunted starkness of the American West, will stay with you night after lonely night.</p><br><p>Is literary style an illusion? Is it a dark smear marking a reader's mind? Evenson explores these questions and more in "Anamorphosis."</p><br><p>"Truth or Consequences in Non-Realist Fiction: What Are We Reading For?" is an examination of the taxonomies of genre and literary fiction, and how marketing categories influence readerly aesthetics for good...and ill.</p><br><p>You've heard of unreliable narrators, but how about unreliable writers? "A Report on Labor" is the best advice for writers you will ever read.</p><br><p>And featuring an in-depth Q&amp;A with new series coeditor Nick Mamatas--topics include censorship, Mormons and Freemasons, H.P. Lovecraft, teaching writing workshops to college kids, and the pitched battle between the labor movement and artificial intelligence.</p>

• Outspoken Authors Flume, Book 38, (Paperback)
• Author: Brian Evenson
• ISBN: 9798887442204
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-02-23
• Page Count: 128