Fiction. "In a city that is a dream, or a frontier, or a dystopia, Nel Lowry is our pilgrim whose progress is a search for Bliss, which is a company and the promise of a lifetime position in a place that might have appeared in Kafka's Amerika. Comic as Nathaniel West's A Cool Million and just as biting, in BLISS INC. Ron Burch has created a world of frightening possibilities and burlesque intrigue, a madhouse worthy of the best amusement parks. This novel is a rich and complex achievement. Read it"—Toby Olson. "Ron Burch knows that if Kafka were alive today, he wouldn't be stuck in a dead end job. He'd be stuck looking for a dead end job. BLISS INC. is an absolutely contemporary allegory of a rent-a-worker, take-what-you-can world where getting started and being on the way out happen pretty much simultaneously. Going nowhere fast in a nameless city has rarely been this entertaining or insightful"—Mark Wallace.

Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA

Ron Burch is a screenwriter and playwright who lives in Los Angeles. His short fiction has appeared in Mississippi Review, The Saint Ann's Review and other literary journals. BLISS INC. is his first novel.

Reviews and Other Links
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Caleb J Ross at Outside Writers Collective