Fiction. "In this joyful critique of a Randian, post-industrial society, Mathias Svalina comments on both the compulsive desire to make the inconsumable and the often intangible recalcitrance of our attempts to create something useful in a world increasingly characterized by a manufactured sense of lack, anomie and disaffection, where we are daily beset by 'a kind of numbness, a shadow of desire or fear offset against a blank world.' Svalina refuses this numbness and offers something else, something completely stunning, in its place."—Gabriel Gudding

"This is a subversive and necessary book: the quixotic entrepreneurial spirit of individualist American capitalism is revealed as an inherently poetic construct, one that rests on theater, liminality, imaginative drive, contradiction, and failure. I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR is poignant and brilliant; it's worth the investment."—Christian Hawkey

Author City: DENVER, CO USA

Mathias Svalina was born in Chicago. He is the author of I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR (Mud Luscious Press, 2011) and DESTRUCTION MYTH (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2009). He has also published numerous solo and collaboratively-written chapbooks, many of which were authored with Julia Cohen. With Zachary Schomburg, he co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He currently teaches writing and literature in Denver, Colorado.

Reviews and Other Links
author blog
Anonymous @ HTMLGIANT
Anonymous (2) @ HTMLGIANT
Daniel D'Angelo @ Phoebe
Stephen Danos @ iO
interview by Nick Sturm @ Bookslut
Sam Biederman @ Bookforum