1. Large galley printing. 2. Additional marketing will include featuring the book at BEA with signing appearances by Brian Evenson, and pre-publication serialization. 3. Our publicity efforts will focus on genre publications, bloggers (including an author "playlist" for David Gutowski's Largehearted Boy and a likely write-up on the LA Times Jacket Copy blog), comics journals, and traditional book and culture media. 4. The tour will likely be expanded to include the Midwest and West Coast, and Brian Evenson will be making some appearances with another Coffee House spring author, Mary Caponegro. The two of them should help generate even better tour-related pr than usual. 5. Author web site: www.brianevenson.com
Praised by Peter Straub for going "furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice," Brian Evenson is the author of eight previous books of fiction, including the Edgar Award-nominated novel The Open Curtain and the International Horror Guild Award-winning collection, The Wavering Knife. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island where he directs Brown University's Literary Arts Program. Zak Sally is the author of the graphic novel, Recidivist, nominated for two Eisner Awards and named one of SPIN magazine's "favorite things." He is also the author of Fantagraphic Books's Sammy the Mouse series, the former bassist of the band Low, and the publisher of La Mano press in Minneapolis.
“Brian Evenson is one of my favorite writers. The stories in this
collection will thrill, unsettle, and captivate. Like lanterns in
dark rooms, paper boats carried down on subterranean waters, they
lead the reader into mysterious and perilous territory. Read at
your own risk.” —Kelly Link
“Brian Evenson is the Donald Barthelme of psychological horror.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Evenson accesses dark, unusual facets of human frailty,
powerlessness and fear. . . . This intense, nightmarish collection
captures the fear of night terrors, when one wakes in the middle of
the night, unable to move.” —Publishers Weekly
“The specific genius of Fugue State rests in subtlety, in Evenson’s
ability to maintain suspense, dread and paranoia through utter
linguistic control.” —Time Out New York (five stars)
“[Fugue State] brings us into contact with thinking itself, with a
sense of terror that seems to multiply plainly, and with the most
difficult kinds of truth.”—The Believer, “5×5: Brian Evenson”
“Laughter can be an effective tool of the horror writer, and
Evenson is its finest practitioner.” —Time Out Chicago
“These 19 satisfying and surreal stories plumb the psyches of
murderers, paranoids, frightened children, bitter ex-husbands,
religious zealots in post-apocalyptic worlds and people whose
fleeting sanity will be gone by story’s end. Evenson takes even his
most fanciful characters seriously even as he partakes of gallows
humor; this book is as packed with subtly hilarious sentences as
haunting images.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Brian Evenson is one of my favorite writers. The stories in this
collection will thrill, unsettle, and captivate. Like lanterns in
dark rooms, paper boats carried down on subterranean waters, they
lead the reader into mysterious and perilous territory. Read at
your own risk.” Kelly Link
Brian Evenson is the Donald Barthelme of psychological horror.”
Los Angeles Times
Evenson accesses dark, unusual facets of human frailty,
powerlessness and fear. . . . This intense, nightmarish collection
captures the fear of night terrors, when one wakes in the middle of
the night, unable to move.” Publishers Weekly
The specific genius of Fugue State rests in subtlety, in Evenson’s
ability to maintain suspense, dread and paranoia through utter
linguistic control.” Time Out New York (five stars)
[Fugue State] brings us into contact with thinking itself, with a
sense of terror that seems to multiply plainly, and with the most
difficult kinds of truth.”The Believer, 5×5: Brian Evenson”
Laughter can be an effective tool of the horror writer, and
Evenson is its finest practitioner.” Time Out Chicago
These 19 satisfying and surreal stories plumb the psyches of
murderers, paranoids, frightened children, bitter ex-husbands,
religious zealots in post-apocalyptic worlds and people whose
fleeting sanity will be gone by story’s end. Evenson takes even his
most fanciful characters seriously even as he partakes of gallows
humor; this book is as packed with subtly hilarious sentences as
haunting images.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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