Chainbreaker #1

by Shelley Jackson

38 pages, Zine

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Shelley Jackson is an American writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including her hyperfiction, Patchwork Girl (1995). Her first novel was published in 2006, Half Life.

In the late nineties, Jackson alternated hypertext work with writing short stories. She published her first short story collection, The Melancholy of Anatomy, in 2002.

Jackson's first novel, Half Life, was published by HarperCollins in 2006. She currently teaches in the graduate writing program at The New School in New York City and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.[14]

Reviews

[HeavyReader · Rating 4 out of 5]

I somehow ended up getting this zine after Hurricane Katrina hit. There is so much New Orleans in here, which made me all sad and homesick. Some of this good stuff is in the Chainbreaker book, but not all of it.