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Cosmo
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Pub Date
Apr 02 2013
| Archive Date
Aug 26 2013
Description
'These stories read like collaborations between Stephen King and TMZ with Borges and Nabokov on the edits. Each short story sounds with the thunder of a novel. Enthralling, dark, gut-busting stuff!' – Jeff Parker
Actor Matthew McConaughey descends into a surreal desert of the soul, an admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a three thousand-word sentence in defense of his passion, an aging porn star dons a dinosaur costume to film the sex scene of a lifetime, and Leonard Cohen shills for Subway: these mercurial and wildly varied stories explode the conventions of short fiction.
Spencer Gordon is the co-editor of the online journal The Puritan and the micro-press Ferno House. Cosmo is his first book.
'These stories read like collaborations between Stephen King and TMZ with Borges and Nabokov on the edits. Each short story sounds with the thunder of a novel. Enthralling, dark, gut-busting stuff!'...
Description
'These stories read like collaborations between Stephen King and TMZ with Borges and Nabokov on the edits. Each short story sounds with the thunder of a novel. Enthralling, dark, gut-busting stuff!' – Jeff Parker
Actor Matthew McConaughey descends into a surreal desert of the soul, an admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a three thousand-word sentence in defense of his passion, an aging porn star dons a dinosaur costume to film the sex scene of a lifetime, and Leonard Cohen shills for Subway: these mercurial and wildly varied stories explode the conventions of short fiction.
Spencer Gordon is the co-editor of the online journal The Puritan and the micro-press Ferno House. Cosmo is his first book.
Advance Praise
'Not only a collection of fiction but also a work of cultural criticism. It succeeds not only as a well-wrought and keenly written collection of narratives, but also as a work of analysis ... Cosmo is a rare book in that it is brave enough to explore the ways in which being loved in private has a very real counterpoint in public, in the form of fame, public identity and cultural cache. In doing so, Gordon dissects the very idea of the authentic in an increasingly public world in which the self is ever more constructed.' – National Post
'In his first collection of fiction, Cosmo,
Spencer Gordon shows us his Mariah Carey-esque range. With expert
wordsmithery, Gordon moves from affecting familial realism to absurd
vision quests in celebrity to experimental palate cleansers ... brave, poignant and hilarious.' – This Magazine
'Not only a collection of fiction but also a work of cultural criticism. It succeeds not only as a well-wrought and keenly written collection of narratives, but also as a work of analysis ... Cosmo...
Advance Praise
'Not only a collection of fiction but also a work of cultural criticism. It succeeds not only as a well-wrought and keenly written collection of narratives, but also as a work of analysis ... Cosmo is a rare book in that it is brave enough to explore the ways in which being loved in private has a very real counterpoint in public, in the form of fame, public identity and cultural cache. In doing so, Gordon dissects the very idea of the authentic in an increasingly public world in which the self is ever more constructed.' – National Post
'In his first collection of fiction, Cosmo,
Spencer Gordon shows us his Mariah Carey-esque range. With expert
wordsmithery, Gordon moves from affecting familial realism to absurd
vision quests in celebrity to experimental palate cleansers ... brave, poignant and hilarious.' – This Magazine
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781552452677 |
| PRICE |
$16.95 (USD)
|
Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781552452677 |
| PRICE |
$16.95 (USD)
|
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