"A brilliant tour de force " "David Hoenigman's terse, staccato prose is the language of consciousness, and his book not so much anti-narrative as true to the realities of one's inner sense-making, true to the convoluted and seemingly disparate tales we tell ourselves - shifting, elusive tales that are on every page complimented by the vivid heterogeneity of Yasutoshi Yoshida's artwork. In short, Burn Your Belongings is a well-crafted and adventurous book from what is undoubtedly a writer of great promise. - Gary J. Shipley, author of Theoretical Animals

"Destined for cult status." - Alex Martin, Outsider Writers Collective "David Hoenigman's Burn Your Belongings is a dense narrative of choppy sentences that elude the human desire for story at almost every turn. When read aloud, mantralike, the thick walls of text take on the feel of religious chant, a prayer to weariness and sickness and anxiety. At other times, they flutter with moments of happiness and love, and feel exponentially more like real life than anything Hemingway or any naturalist ever put to paper. In the margins of each page is a different vibrant color collage by Yasutoshi...