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Nasparnival™
Nasparnival™ explodes the absurdity of contemporary America with sharp satire, wild humor, and Kafkaesque twists. Follow Colt Cortez, a former Hollywood child star turned would-be U.S. senator, as he and his eccentric crew navigate a chaotic world where book bans, school shootings, drug epidemics, identity theft, corpse mutilation, and even zoo escapes collide in a frenetic race toward power.
Set against the backdrop of a right-wing “Freedom town” shaped like the Omega symbol, the novel blurs the line between reality and reality TV, peeling back the façades of fame, politics, and family drama. Colt’s crumbling marriage, rampant drug use, and experimental societal control schemes drive a plot that moves as fast as it dazzles.
With a nod to film noir and Gonzo journalism, Nasparnival™ exposes the moral decay beneath America’s glittering surface, weaving biting cultural critique with wild characters and dark comedy. It’s a cautionary tale for anyone captivated by power’s allure and the price of unchecked ambition.
Set against the backdrop of a right-wing “Freedom town” shaped like the Omega symbol, the novel blurs the line between reality and reality TV, peeling back the façades of fame, politics, and family drama. Colt’s crumbling marriage, rampant drug use, and experimental societal control schemes drive a plot that moves as fast as it dazzles.
With a nod to film noir and Gonzo journalism, Nasparnival™ exposes the moral decay beneath America’s glittering surface, weaving biting cultural critique with wild characters and dark comedy. It’s a cautionary tale for anyone captivated by power’s allure and the price of unchecked ambition.
596 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 13, 2026
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About the author
Freeman Smith
1 book3 followersFreeman Smith, aka Dan Freeman is an American-born artist and writer. He lives, travels, observes, and writes about America. He enjoys attending music festivals, local zoning hearings, and vaguely - if at all - sanctioned, suburban, underground, neighbor-against-neighbor, MMA events with his rescue dog, Eddie VH. He’s played basketball in Rucker Park and at the Aspen Meadows Resort. He can intuit a person’s entire belief system based on their views of the NBA and confirm the competition was much better at the Ruck than at the Aspen resort.
A near-famous, former film actor, he’s lived in Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York City. He especially likes the literature of Irvine Welsh, Thomas McGuane, Tom Wolfe, the Beat poets, Flannery O’Connor, and Charles Bukowski. He is the co-founder and co-owner of Denver's first all-fiction literary magazine.
He once read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" aloud to his wife as she lifted weights. He married his wife because she too owned a copy of "The Age of Voltaire," a 973-page, 3.1-pound book. They were both buying their literature by the pound then in that pre-Twitter era. One summer, they bought two large speakers from a guy named Tom at a Guitar Center and played operas through the speakers at full volume to the neighborhood every Sunday afternoon mistaking their anger for enthusiasm. But they were young, damn it. Have you not been young?
He’s authored books under different names over the years and has placed many of his stories in random books at libraries across the land. But now he’s finally sold out to the literature world as "Society, Suspicious" can be purchased in retail stores worldwide including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart and several other outlets he’s never heard of before. "Society, Suspicious" is being translated into numerous languages including Danish. "Nyd jer heldige mennesker!" which is Danish for: “Enjoy, you lucky people!” Oh, and he has a website too: www.freemansmith.com. You should check it out to learn more about this book in case you need more convincing. And as always, check out atmospherepress.com for other amazing books by some of the world's most interesting writers.
Clearly, Freeman Smith, aka Dan Freeman is in the big leagues now.
As he says often when discussing his writing or talking about writing when he is writing, “Shakespeare? Who's he? I say, Shakespeare, Who's he, now?”
A near-famous, former film actor, he’s lived in Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York City. He especially likes the literature of Irvine Welsh, Thomas McGuane, Tom Wolfe, the Beat poets, Flannery O’Connor, and Charles Bukowski. He is the co-founder and co-owner of Denver's first all-fiction literary magazine.
He once read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" aloud to his wife as she lifted weights. He married his wife because she too owned a copy of "The Age of Voltaire," a 973-page, 3.1-pound book. They were both buying their literature by the pound then in that pre-Twitter era. One summer, they bought two large speakers from a guy named Tom at a Guitar Center and played operas through the speakers at full volume to the neighborhood every Sunday afternoon mistaking their anger for enthusiasm. But they were young, damn it. Have you not been young?
He’s authored books under different names over the years and has placed many of his stories in random books at libraries across the land. But now he’s finally sold out to the literature world as "Society, Suspicious" can be purchased in retail stores worldwide including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart and several other outlets he’s never heard of before. "Society, Suspicious" is being translated into numerous languages including Danish. "Nyd jer heldige mennesker!" which is Danish for: “Enjoy, you lucky people!” Oh, and he has a website too: www.freemansmith.com. You should check it out to learn more about this book in case you need more convincing. And as always, check out atmospherepress.com for other amazing books by some of the world's most interesting writers.
Clearly, Freeman Smith, aka Dan Freeman is in the big leagues now.
As he says often when discussing his writing or talking about writing when he is writing, “Shakespeare? Who's he? I say, Shakespeare, Who's he, now?”
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February 4, 2026
I’ve been heavily debating what it means for a book to be truly “kafkaesque.” This book checks the boxes of being incredibly complex and bizarre, but somehow just misses the mark for me. NasparnivalTM is a whole 500 pages of quirky characters and strange anecdotes, attempting to poke fun at the moral decline/ hedonism/ hypocrisy within the elite in the USA. The book summary has it described as a story following Colt Cortez, former child star/ aspiring politician but the plotline is not entirely coherent and the characters are secondary to just this overall dark, borderline revolting energy surrounding the described social circles- very topical at a time we’re dealing with the revelations in the Epstein files. The critique felt a little too on-the nose for me to find it too witty, but nonetheless I didn’t hate this read. It was hard to get into at first, and had its dull moments but it was overall okay.
February 10, 2026
This book, NASPARNIVAL, is the best book I have read in several years. It's a big book, but incredibly entertaining, smart, and I feel like it is a bit groundbreaking on so many levels. It's filled with humor, philosophy, pop culture, and is smooth as smooth can be. One critic compares him to Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace...Maybe so, but Smith is, to me, a better, clearer thinker and writer than these two, and he doesn't get cute like Pynchon and Foster Wallace. I recommend this book to everyone. Two thumbs up, 5 stars, bouquets of flowers, whatever...this dude is legit. Best book I have read in years.
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