The short fictions collected in Public Works explore the extremes of human nature and literary technique. From the manic, single-sentence fiction "Public Sentence" to the carefully structured and plot-twisting "We Stand Here, Swinging Cats," Grimes' stories have an idiosyncratic and associative quality-nothing follows predictably from anything, and beginnings never foreshadow ends. While reading, one has the sense that, despite recognizable voices and themes, this imagination seems alien, as though divvying up and parceling out the world by its own rules. In "Glue Trap," a one-legged...
The short fictions collected in Public Works explore the extremes of human nature and literary technique. From the manic, single-sentence ficti...
"The single brilliantly funny voice of something genuinely new." - Walter Benn Michaels, American literary theorist, and author of The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History "It is a pleasure to think about what Grimes's art is thinking, but the greatest pleasure, like the pleasure of music, is in the unfolding inventions of the language itself." - Curtis White, American Book Review From take-off to landing, The Pornographers moves at the speed of sound through post 9-11 angst, yoga, bureaucratic helplessness, marriage, collective public insecurity and family. A group of minor...
"The single brilliantly funny voice of something genuinely new." - Walter Benn Michaels, American literary theorist, and author of The Shape of the Si...
BLACK & WHITE EDITION "The single brilliantly funny voice of something genuinely new." -Walter Benn Michaels, author of The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History "In fiction of this sort, there is huge pressure on the line-by-line life of the prose. Happily, it is in the energy and inventiveness of its language that this novel is most alive. Because that is what the work is finally about, that wonderful redundancy we call "art," showing us once again...the way from death to life." - Curtis White, American Book Review From take-off...
BLACK & WHITE EDITION "The single brilliantly funny voice of something genuinely new." -Walter Benn Michaels, author of The Gold Standard and the Logi...
This edition is the short story version of the novel, The Pornographers, and is sold only on Jaded Ibis website, or free with purchase of The Pornographers by Christopher Grimes. Contact the publisher for more information: questions at Jaded Ibis Productions dot com From take-off to landing, these linked stories move at the speed of sound through post 9-11 angst, yoga, bureaucratic helplessness, marriage, collective public insecurity and family. A group of minor bureaucrats operating under the unfunded directive of "Homeland Security" try to start a commercial pornography site in order to...
This edition is the short story version of the novel, The Pornographers, and is sold only on Jaded Ibis website, or free with purchase of The Pornogra...
