On the left-hand pages unfolds in numerous forms the story of graduate students in love. On the right-hand pages is an essay explaining the forms used in composing the story, involving cognitive science, structuralist narratology, and literary criticism.

A surrealist feast for romantic fools pours through your letterbox.

Set in an alternate present that is a slightly, if dangerously, skewed version of our own, Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the world-as-we-know-it, brought on by a global super-virus. Beginning with a biting satire of an academic poetry conference, the novel moves on to encompass the stories of a poet-astronaut, a microbiologist contemplating an exit strategy from her high-level job designing biological weapons, a sports-car-driving killer who stages the aesthetic murders of utopian commune-dwellers, and a lone pirate...