Better Ways of Being Dead

by Christian TeBordo

Better Ways of Being Dead by Christian TeBordo is a dark mystery (more pleasedoit than whodunit), an A paper, an F paper, several very bad sonnets, a batch of ridiculous encyclopedia entries, and a lengthy monologue that takes place entirely during a game of hands on a hard body. Required reading for all students of Advanced Recomposition.

Genres: Bizarro Fiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published April 20, 2007

About the author

Christian TeBordo was born in Albany, New York. His first collection of short stories The Awful Possibilities, is forthcoming from featherproof books in April 2010. He has published three novels, most recently We Go Liquid, and his work has been published in 3rd Bed, Ninth Letter, Torpedo, and Sleeping Fish, among others. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, the choreographer Kathryn TeBordo, who plays and sings in the indie rock bands The Failed Alliance and Tinmouth.

Reviews

[Christy Stewart]

This is the literary version of Attack on the Pin-Up Boys.

[Tom Holme]

I love bears; I love panda bears; I love college settings; I love mysteries...I love bizarro fiction that brings all of these together.

Ok, this was actually my first foray into bizarro fiction. I did not know the genre before and I'm not sure I'd read more, but I did enjoy this sampling very much.

[Tami]

I am not sure what I just read..