Routine Madness: a novella

by Jeremy Cooper

Logan, a feckless drunk and neurotic accountant, is struggling unsuccessfully to curb his hostile mind’s incessant negative thinking, dubbed The Choir of Rumination, and consequentially forces his reluctant hand to retrain a brain hellbent on seeing him suffer. After a close encounter with death, Logan begins Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with the help of his equally unhinged friend, Nikki, and an insightful and empathetic counselor, Debi. Logan also seeks help from the higher power of his own understanding, Rick Moranis, as he balances the madness of recovery and the unpredictability of life. Routine Madness is a raw journey through the tenebrous thoughts of a mentally ill individual as he battles for his life against The Choir of Rumination and the occasional errant neck hair.

192 pages, Hardcover

Published December 9, 2024

About the author

Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian, author of six previous novels and several works of non-fiction, including the standard work on nineteenth century furniture, studies of young British artists in the 1990s, and, in 2019, the British Museum's catalogue of artists' postcards. Early on he appeared in the first twenty-four of BBC's Antiques Roadshow and, in 2018, won
the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak.