Fiction. In THE REALLY FUNNY THING ABOUT APATHY, Chelsea Martin's charming but merciless prose employs mathematical paradoxes and theories of infinity to examine the inner workings of the bored and culturally over-stimulated while they idly consider the meaning of life. Overwhelmed and assaulted by their own inner monologues, these characters stumble through a series of external events, obsessing over the possible connections and ultimately assigning deep meaning to them.

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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