This diverse book of linked stories is filled with off-centre characters and their flaws and burdens. Read about a one-armed baseball player, anosmiatics, a colour blind photographer, a time pusher and his best customer, intruders, the grape-picking diaspora, the whippet police, treeplanters lost in the slash, a one-handed mechanic with a reputation to uphold, and many more. Also contained in this collection are the definitive ‘How-To’ guide to building a wall and tales of writers getting real jobs (William Faulkner drives a cab, Mikhail Bakhtin becomes a clown). With a craftsman’s skill, Brown moves from hilarity to foreboding, often within a single page.
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"...enter a world of the inexplicable, where time is the drug of choice." -- Anne Stone
"Read this for its tremulous intelligence, its bravado, its confident obscurity." -- Hal Niedzviecki
"Read this for its tremulous intelligence, its bravado, its confident obscurity." -- Hal Niedzviecki
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Andy Brown is the co-editor of You & Your Bright Ideas: New Montreal Writing (Véhicule Press) and Running with Scissors (Cumulus Press). He is a contributing editor for Matrix magazine and the founder of conundrum press.
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They worked together in a small publishing firm known for its How-To books. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
time pusher, photo booth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pete Gray, Taxidermy Bound, Russian Princess, Bob Marley New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Running with Scissors (Tendril Anthology Series) by Andy Brown in Back Matter
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