Fiction. Art. Anything is possible in Chelsea Martin's bizarre and endearingly honest collection of stories, lists, flash fictions, and revealing factoids. EVERYTHING IS FINE UNTIL WHATEVER is a poker-faced and unpredictably comic tour de force. Festooned with artwork and handwritten notes, this is a grand debut by a magical new talent. Check out her own web site for extra goodness.
"Chelsea Martin offers a quirky blend of absurd erudition, hard-eyed candor, unexpected sentiment, tiny subliminal footnotes, and loopy artwork. The illustration alone for her 'to do' list is worth the price of the book. Plus she's insane."—Mike Topp
"Chelsea Martin's shapeshifting debut is not only wonderful and wacko, but, goddamn, something honest, something new."—Blake Butler
Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA
Chelsea Martin was 23 when she published her first collection, EVERYTHING WAS FINE UNTIL WHATEVER (Future Tense Books, 2009), a genre-blurring book of short fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, sketches, and memoir. She is also the author, most recently, of THE REALLY FUNNY THING ABOUT APATHY (sunnyoutside, 2010) and illustrator of Joshua Brandon's Four-Letter Poems (2011). Martin lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and runs the small business Universal Error.
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interview by John Madera @ The Rumpus
artist profile by Riley Michael Parker @ HOUSEFIRE
Nathan Tyree @ Bookmunch