Valley

by Mike Daily

Novel. "...the book jumps from genre to genre, turning the author, Mike Daily, into a young Frankenstein, concocting his own literary monster [by using] a pastiche of journal entries, newspaper clippings, poetry and screenplay scenes..."--Warp Magazine. Daily's novel begins with a list of the zero other books he has written and ends with several blank pages for "notes," and, at points between, touches on topics ranging from Dostoevsky to the absence of the letter "Q" on most soda machines. The book is tentatively set in the post-apocalyptic/ present-day moonscape of the San Fernando Valley, sports chapter-titles such as "Tales of a Giant" and "The Bathroom God," and features hand-written marginalia, a burnt page "specially singed [sic] by the poet," and a pervasive sense of aesthetic indeterminacy interrupted regularly by bouts of hilarity: "Freya was making dinner and I was leafing through Gunshot and Stab Wounds, a brochure I must have picked up at the hospital, when someone knocked at the door."

195 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 1998

About the author

Mike Daily is an author, journalist, zinemaker, and co-founder of the Plywood Hoods Freestyle BMX Trick Team. Daily's new novel, Moon Babes of Bicycle City (4/3/20, "Second Printing Forever") is available now on Amazon and direct from the author on Bandcamp. "Total linguistic freestyle."--Scuffington Post