Life is Easy

by Jordan Krall

A 300+ page collection of stories and novellas spanning 1999-2016.
Hardcover is limited to 23 copies
CONTENTS
Ora Pro Nobis
On Spreading Revelations
Maldoror Undressed
The Men Inside the Enclosure
Why Our Father Left
Neon Gutter Meat
Testing Xnoybis
Flashes of the Hummingbird
The Dunch Horror
Howling Beard
Billy Roanoke
Funtime, USA (Radical)
Last Man in Line for Limes
Break Time
The Black Magick Bathroom
The Bananatic
The Mystical Consequences of Buttering an Egg
Anarchonautical Tongue Experiment
Grub Shutter Star
A Fortune Not Unlike Shit
The Sex of Imaginary Cufflinks
Paper Host with Blame Gibbet
King Eggs
Greenback Dollar
Boushbou
Fall of Because
Black Envelopes
Anton LaVey was a Jew
Journals and Eggs from the Land of Waste
The Book of Akashquid
Button Man
Timeline of Fauntleroy Le Roux
Street of Dwarf Sunshine Wood
Newly Shaven Saint
Prelude to Space Rape
Santa Claus and the Elves of Fuck
Assassination’s Secret Domain
Black Boned Squid
Taboric Light Beer
The Chair
The Big Snatch
Mark Tenebrous
Body Dome Light
Psychonautics in the Age of Loop Panic
Astral Hell

330 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2017

About the author

Books include:

TENTACLE DEATH TRIP
FISTFUL OF FEET
MOTEL MAN
KING SCRATCH
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE APOCALYPSE DONKEYS
PIECEMEAL JUNE
SQUID PULP BLUES
NEWLY SHAVEN SAINT
UNFRUITFUL WORKS
PRELUDE TO SPACE RAPE!
SQUID KILLS
THE PISTOL BURPS
ALL POEMS MUST DIE
FALSE MAGIC KINGDOM
BAD ALCHEMY
THE GOG AND MAGOG BUSINESS
YOUR CITIES, YOUR TOMBS

Reviews

[Michael Adams · Rating 4 out of 5]

WOW. First things first, this book is a double-barreled shotgun blast of Krall to the face. There is so much material here, spanning across many years of his career. We see all the permutations of his style, from standard narrative prose, to his most strange and experimental works (paragraphs of X's, long strings of text that are just lists of unrelated words, nonsensical footnotes and invented-word section titles, etc), and the birth of his trademark non-linear, 'cut-up' style. The stories run the gamut from comic to tragic, slipping and sliding through bizarro humor, strange science-fiction, noir-infused crime stories, and searing deconstructions of modern-day cultural mores, and throughout it all Krall boldly and unflinchingly takes us on these dark journeys of the body-and-mind horrors of being a human being; trapped in a lusting, hungering, pugnacious, and ever-decaying flesh-and-bone prison, peppered with ribald, scatological, and mischievous humor, and an often-times told in an almost uncomfortably intimate, first-person confessional style. I've said all this and not even touched on his poetic use of repetition and variation, or the unsettling use of the unreliable narrator and the 'am I crazy, am I drugged, or am I the only one seeing the world for how it really is' effect it has on the reader. Suffice it to say this is an intense and highly varied collection, and may not be for everyone, but those who already know Jordan Krall's work will find a lot value in this archaeological cross-section of his past works and evolving style.