And once again I learned that it’s unwise to read terrifying stories when all the lights are out save two tiny bulbs above your head. John Madera: The first time I read Fugue State, I was riding on a late night bus to New York City. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University’s Literary Arts Program. Other recent books include Last Days (Underland Press, 2009), and Aliens: No Exit (Dark Horse Books, 2008) his co-translation (with Joanna Howard) of Marcel Cohen’s Walls has just appeared from Black Square Editions. No stranger to awards, Evenson was a finalist for both the prestigious Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award for his novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press, 2006) his story collection The Wavering Knife (FC2, 2004) won the IHG Award, and he has received an O. Over the course of ten books, most recently the story collection Fugue State (Coffee House Press) and a limited-edition novella, Baby Leg (New York Tyrant Books), Evenson has proven that he’s as much a provocative storyteller as he is a masterful syntactical stylist his sentence-driven narratives circumvent conventional story expectations and trespass genre boundaries while simultaneously navigating ontological and epistemological quandaries. Brian Evenson’s fiction is peopled by estranged ciphers, paranoiac wanderers, hyper self-aware talking heads, broken but not beaten skeptics, philosophizing cutthroats, and no small number of maimed and dismembered.
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