Brilliant...Evenson manages to capture madness with a masterful tone. The specific genius o"f Fugue Sta"te rests in subtlety, in Evenson s ability to maintain suspense, dread and paranoia through utter linguistic control. " Time Out New York" "" 19 satisfying and surreal stories...packed with subtly hilarious sentences. "Cleveland Plain Dealer" Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe. Jonathan Lethem "The stories in this collection will thrill, unsettle, and...