Fantagraphics has officially announced the new Stephen Dixon story collection, What Is All This?, due out in May 2010.
Click through for a shot of the (previously mentioned) cover (which I really like). Here's a quote for you:
Oh, yeah, and it's about 900 pages long. Nice.
Click through for a shot of the (previously mentioned) cover (which I really like). Here's a quote for you:
Fantagraphics Books is proud to present his latest volume of short stories, a massive collection of vintage Dixon, eschewing the modernism and quasi-autobiography of his I-trilogy and instead treating readers to a pared-down, crystalline style more reminiscent of Hemingway....
"This is our third book of prose fiction -after Alex Theroux's Laura Warholic and Monte Schulz's This Side of Jordan- and readers may notice that the common denominator among these books is that language itself serves as the animating literary force," says acquiring editor and Fantagraphics co-publisher Gary Groth. "Dixon's finely chiseled sentences cut to the quick of people's lives. None of these stories have been collected in any book; they have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals over almost 40 years and Dixon has entirely rewritten all of them. Dixon admirers will be cheered to learn that these stories comprise a wholly original work."
Oh, yeah, and it's about 900 pages long. Nice.
Posted by Darby M. Dixon III at 10:15 PM.
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Awe. some.
7:41 PM, December 01, 2009
I must agree.
9:50 PM, December 01, 2009
I miss your posts, man. Been reading your back posts all day at work. You've put Interstate on my to-read list, but like yours, it's towering.
-Jonathan Post
7:08 PM, December 03, 2009
Hey, thanks for the comment. Must have been a pretty day at the office, huh?
10:16 PM, December 03, 2009
And of course by pretty day I mean pretty dull day.
11:48 PM, December 03, 2009
I love the cover, too!
11:17 AM, December 04, 2009
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