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Tunnels
Ben Segal’s narrative cat’s cradle, designed with geometrical precision, suggestive indirectness, and carnivalesque imagination, explores book as activity, novel as poetry machine, page as visual event, and reading as mystery, motion, curiosity, surprise, puzzle, pleasure, lostness, and termite tunneling. Beautiful and brilliant.
— Lance Olsen, author of My Red Heaven and Skin Elegies
A dozen years ago, Ben Segal asked me to imagine that I had just read the most amazing book I had ever encountered, and to write a short blurb for the fictional tome. I offered:
“Set in a grid, the book’s words can be read conventionally, across the page, as well as down each column. But they can also be read as stacked strata. By opening up the z-axis to reading in this way, The Cube recognizes the book as a three-dimensional sculptural space.”
Miraculously, he was working on just such a book, and here it is, even more amazing than I had dared to dream. Amaze, as it happens, is the root of maze, but Tunnels is a labyrinth, so all the roots here, like all the routes through its narrative possibilities, are rhizomes.
— Craig Dworkin, author of Helicography
— Lance Olsen, author of My Red Heaven and Skin Elegies
A dozen years ago, Ben Segal asked me to imagine that I had just read the most amazing book I had ever encountered, and to write a short blurb for the fictional tome. I offered:
“Set in a grid, the book’s words can be read conventionally, across the page, as well as down each column. But they can also be read as stacked strata. By opening up the z-axis to reading in this way, The Cube recognizes the book as a three-dimensional sculptural space.”
Miraculously, he was working on just such a book, and here it is, even more amazing than I had dared to dream. Amaze, as it happens, is the root of maze, but Tunnels is a labyrinth, so all the roots here, like all the routes through its narrative possibilities, are rhizomes.
— Craig Dworkin, author of Helicography
412 pages, Paperback
Published July 31, 2024
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