Fiction. Illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally, Brian Evenson's hallucinatory and darkly comic stories of paranoia, pursuit, sensory deprivation, amnesia, and retribution rattle the cages of the psyche and peer into the gaping moral chasm that opens when we become estranged from ourselves. From sadistic bosses with secret fears to a woman trapped in a mime's imaginary box, and from a post-apocalyptic misidentified Messiah to unwitting portraitists of the dead, the mind-bending world of this modern-day Edgar Allan Poe exposes the horror contained within our daily lives.

Author Hometown: PROVIDENCE, RI USA



About the author: BRIAN EVENSON is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently The Open Curtain (Coffee House) which was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an IHG Award and was among Time Out New York's top books of 2006. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University¡s Literary Arts Program. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) and The Brotherhood of Mutilation. He has translated work by Chrstian Gailly, Jean FrEmon and Jacques Jouet. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship. A novel, Last Days, and a new collection of stories, Fugue State, are forthcoming in 2009.

Reviews:
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/016_03/4327
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009fall/evenson.shtml
http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/2009_11/nov2009_book_reviews.htm#Fugue
http://www.thecollagist.com/archive/August2009/Call/index.html
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009winter/evenson.shtml
http://htmlgiant.com/?p=9962
http://htmlgiant.com/?p=11460
http://htmlgiant.com/?p=12581
http://www.thejohnfox.com/bookfox/2009/06/review-fugue-state-brian-evenson.html
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/76133/brian-evenson-fugue-state-book-review
http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/book-review-fugue-state-brian-evenson/
http://www.brianevenson.com/