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Stranger on the Loose
In this collection of stories, D. Harlan Wilson deconditions the boundaries of reality with the same offbeat methodology that energized his first book The Kafka Effekt. Stranger on the Loose is an absurdist account of urban and suburban social dynamics, and of the effects that contemporary image-culture has on the (in)human condition. These stories operate on a plane of existence that resists, and in many cases breaks, the laws of causality.
Parrots teach college courses. Flaneurs impersonate bowling pins. Bodybuilders sneak into people's homes and strike poses at their leisure. Passive-aggressive glaciers and miniature elephant-humans antagonize the seedy streets of Suburbia. Apes disguised as scientists reincarnate Walt Disney, who discovers that he is a Chinese box full of disguised Walt Disneys . . . Wilson's imagination is a rare specimen. The acorns of his fiction are planted in the soil of normalcy, but what grows out of that soil is a dark, witty, otherworldly jungle.
Parrots teach college courses. Flaneurs impersonate bowling pins. Bodybuilders sneak into people's homes and strike poses at their leisure. Passive-aggressive glaciers and miniature elephant-humans antagonize the seedy streets of Suburbia. Apes disguised as scientists reincarnate Walt Disney, who discovers that he is a Chinese box full of disguised Walt Disneys . . . Wilson's imagination is a rare specimen. The acorns of his fiction are planted in the soil of normalcy, but what grows out of that soil is a dark, witty, otherworldly jungle.
228 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2003
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D. Harlan Wilson
72 books349 followersD. Harlan Wilson is an award-winning American novelist, literary critic, editor, playwright, and college professor. He is the author of over thirty book-length works of fiction and nonfiction, and hundreds of hist stories, plays, essays, and reviews have been published across the world in more than ten languages. Recent books include Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmosophy, and the Kubrickian Consciousness, Minority Report, Jackanape and the Fingermen, and Outré.
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April 20, 2020
What’s the use of absurdism? Absurdist adepts make us see old things with new eyes…
A combat of a patron and a waiter over a raw human tongue served in a restaurant for dinner, barbarians for pets, human beings substituted with parrots, a homeless tramp practicing psychoanalysis, wild snail tamer – trivia of everyday life observed from the absurdist’s vantage point help us to understand our preposterous reality much better.
“A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.” – E.E. Cummings.
That’s it.
The less I think, the less I am, and the less I am – the more I have the potential to become.
A combat of a patron and a waiter over a raw human tongue served in a restaurant for dinner, barbarians for pets, human beings substituted with parrots, a homeless tramp practicing psychoanalysis, wild snail tamer – trivia of everyday life observed from the absurdist’s vantage point help us to understand our preposterous reality much better.
Unlike most politicians, this one wasn’t ugly and hideous. He was bald, of course, but his head wasn’t shaped like a pumpkin and his eyes weren’t close-knit and beady. On the contrary, he had a head like a hawk and his eyes were strong, blue and in proportion with the features of his face… But more than that, the politician had already dropped his pants and began having sex with the porn stars.
“A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.” – E.E. Cummings.
That’s it.
November 9, 2022
Second reading. It’s been over ten years. I’m better at book reviews now, so I wanted to revisit the collection that gave me permission to forget logic and define my own rules.
RESTAURANT: When a waiter serves our narrator a human tongue (recently severed and still bleeding), he dares to send it back, thus insulting the waiter’s integrity. Now it’s a fight for honor as the waiter summons reinforcements. Luckily, our narrator has his own on-call army of boy bands ready to defend him. I can see the influence of Franz Kafka now, especially in the almost-Victorian dialogue. This isn’t a story. It’s an experience.*
THE GROUNDHOG THAT DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS A MAN: It’s your duty to show him. Getting a mirror is the hard part.
COPS & BODYBUILDERS :
No way to argue with that logic. The story ends with the cops arresting the homeowner for being inhospitable to the bodybuilder. Yeah, sound logic all around and I remember laughing out loud the first time I read it.*
GLACIER:
A man in suburbia is trying to escape and/or get rid of the glacier that has appeared on his front lawn. Time may be short before it engulfs the entire neighborhood. He could deal with it if he wouldn’t keep passing out from strain, and if his children would manage to stay alive. Another unforgettable adventure tale of weirdness that never leaves the yard.*
YAK ON A HOT TIN ROOF : “A group of firemen suddenly grew bored with the sound of the siren on their fire engine. They decided to replace the siren with a small yak.” Now... just a matter of making the yak cooperate after they set a fire just to use their new siren.
DIGGING FOR ADULTS: Adults got tired of taking care of their children, so they buried themselves in the hopes their kids would get the hint and leave. It hasn't worked. Their pesky kids just keep digging. One of my favorites that I still remember vividly.*
BEFORE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: after his car is stolen, a man breaks into a house to use the phone and is subsequently dragged to the basement to face the board of directors. The dialogue is so far off the rails it somehow makes it to its destination.
DEER IN THE CITY: that’s it. Flash fiction that is gone from memory in a flash.
COMMUNITY: Ah, now this one is timeless. It draws you in with its internal logic and never lets you go.
Naturally, the townspeople decide it’s time to do something about this boy whose Achilles’ tendons never snap. Why this hasn’t been made into a Netflix original series is beyond me.*
THE IMPULSIVE MAN: The tale of the impulsive man living in a rich family’s piano. Aimless and perhaps the least amusing in the collection.
THE VOICEOVER MAN: A conversation between a doctor and his therapist. The doctor doesn’t want to be a doctor, and his therapist is homeless. Their session is straight out of Waiting for Godot.
PROFESSOR DYSPEPTICAL’S PARROT: A university professor is tired of teaching classes, so he buys a parrot to give his lectures for him. Good idea, until the students decide to do the same. Amusing and a fun concept.*
PITYRIASIS PARK: The park is empty, so the townspeople pretend to be the trees and shrubs and bushes and grass and frolicking dogs. One of the most memorable scenarios in the collection and also begging to be a Netflix original series. You could get 15 seasons out of this place, easily.*
MY BARBARIAN: a heartfelt tale about boy and pet. A timeless tale of loyalty and love. Really, housebreaking should be the first step when one adopts a barbarian.
WHEN A MAN WALKS INTO A ROOM: In a bar modeled on the internals of the human body, populated by naked pornstars free for the taking, one man tells a stranger he’s going to kill him. Just a routine part of life in the big city.
ELEPHANT INVASION: While two housewives are comparing kitchen renovations, the street is invaded by chicken-sized elephants. How does these two react to the invasion? In the most logical way possible. Another of the big standouts in the collection for its imagery and narrative wordplay.*
TEN FLÂNEURS: Ten men like to dress up and pretend to be bowling pins on the streets. If only someone would indulge them. If only.
THE OSTENSIBLY IMMORTAL PIECE OF BREAD: This piece of bread refuses to grow mold on it. Something must be wrong with it. Therefore, the baker must die. Story takes a long time to go nowhere, and that’s the point. Unpleasant but unforgettable.*
STRANGER ON THE LOOSE: The city is obsessed with the Stranger. So obsessed news no longer needs humans to disseminate itself across the population; news of the Stranger’s activities travels on its own. Who is the Stranger? What does he want? Why does he exist? Why are you connected to him? There are no answers, but it’s a fun ride.*
SHRIEK: Always take your coffee black.
EVOLUTION AND ITS VICISSITUDES: “Suddenly, spontaneously, for no biologically determinable reason, the male genitalia developed a method of constant self cleaning that allowed men, once they had finished urinating in public restrooms, to forego the tedious business of washing their hands.”
All is well until it isn’t. It’s a good setup but this time Wilson doesn’t do anything interesting with it.
DISNEY REANIMATED: Disney is brought back from the dead, and then the story doesn’t use this fact. People just unzip their skins and reveal themselves under their personas. An unsatisfying turn with no real connection to the beginning.
“FIE,” SAID HER KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR: Who doesn’t wait up for their knight in shining armor to fight for their honor and hand in marriage? He just has to fight his way past the children on the lawn and the postman at the door. Amusing, but after its predecessors, this one is almost too grounded in reality.
ON FILMNOIRMAKING: A film director argues with a cameraman over whether or not he he doing a good job capturing the aura of a shadow. The conversation is more tedious than bizarre, though I do like how it ends.
THE BACK OF THE MAN’S HAND: A meandering, stream of consciousness musing while a man memorizes the back of his hand. And much like the back of his hand, it’s not very interesting.
A BARBER’S TALE: “One day a barber’s customers decided to start shaving their heads on a regular basis so that they could put him out of business.” Doesn’t go anywhere interesting, but it does have a cute ending.
AVALANCHE OF MY SELF: I don’t understand this one at all.
IGSNAY BÜRDD THE ANIMAL TRAINER: Probably my least favorite. Igsnay is a famous animal trainer, and he’s been hired to train his most difficult animal yet. The story takes a long time to reveal this mysterious animal, and then the story ends. An awful long buildup with not much of a payoff, and the weirdness is more tedious than tantalizing.
_____
The best stories (*) are at the beginning, and they are the ones that establish their own rules and succeed in telling a story using those rules. The pieces in the latter half feel like random nonsense and aren’t as interesting.
Rereading this collection now, I realize it’s the stories in the first half I remember best. They are amazing trips and I highly recommend them.
(E-books used to be simple. You downloaded a PDF and read it on anything you wanted. Then Barnes and Noble bought Fictionwise and killed it, pushing people to buy their exclusive hardware. Amazon decided to take what should be a simple format and make it complicated just to enforce exclusiveness to push its own e-reader. I miss easy ebooks. Happy to still have my PDF of Stranger from Fictionwise.)
RESTAURANT: When a waiter serves our narrator a human tongue (recently severed and still bleeding), he dares to send it back, thus insulting the waiter’s integrity. Now it’s a fight for honor as the waiter summons reinforcements. Luckily, our narrator has his own on-call army of boy bands ready to defend him. I can see the influence of Franz Kafka now, especially in the almost-Victorian dialogue. This isn’t a story. It’s an experience.*
THE GROUNDHOG THAT DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS A MAN: It’s your duty to show him. Getting a mirror is the hard part.
COPS & BODYBUILDERS :
“But could you leave please? My wife will be home soon and if she sees us here together she might get suspicious. And anyway you’re breaking the law. You can’t just sneak into somebody’s house, start posing and expect everything to be all right. Please go.”
The bodybuilder shook his head. “I’m sorry but I can’t do that. Once I start posing, there’s no stopping me.” [...] “I may take five now and then to shoot up an anabolic cocktail and fix myself a protein shake, but otherwise, you’re stuck with me. You’re stuck with me for a long, long time.”
No way to argue with that logic. The story ends with the cops arresting the homeowner for being inhospitable to the bodybuilder. Yeah, sound logic all around and I remember laughing out loud the first time I read it.*
GLACIER:
Rakehell steadied himself. He turned to his family and said, “There’s a glacier in the front yard. I don’t know where it came from and I don’t know why it’s here, but it’s laying out there like a dead cow in the road and it won’t go away. Not only that—it’s moving. Not very fast, but it’s moving all right, and it’s headed right in our direction. We have to leave. Do you understand?”
“You’re scaring the prepubescents, dear,” said Mrs. Bartleberry.
A man in suburbia is trying to escape and/or get rid of the glacier that has appeared on his front lawn. Time may be short before it engulfs the entire neighborhood. He could deal with it if he wouldn’t keep passing out from strain, and if his children would manage to stay alive. Another unforgettable adventure tale of weirdness that never leaves the yard.*
YAK ON A HOT TIN ROOF : “A group of firemen suddenly grew bored with the sound of the siren on their fire engine. They decided to replace the siren with a small yak.” Now... just a matter of making the yak cooperate after they set a fire just to use their new siren.
DIGGING FOR ADULTS: Adults got tired of taking care of their children, so they buried themselves in the hopes their kids would get the hint and leave. It hasn't worked. Their pesky kids just keep digging. One of my favorites that I still remember vividly.*
BEFORE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: after his car is stolen, a man breaks into a house to use the phone and is subsequently dragged to the basement to face the board of directors. The dialogue is so far off the rails it somehow makes it to its destination.
DEER IN THE CITY: that’s it. Flash fiction that is gone from memory in a flash.
COMMUNITY: Ah, now this one is timeless. It draws you in with its internal logic and never lets you go.
Derillict Hagadorn’s Achilles’ tendons are made of spidersteel. He wasn’t born with spidersteel Achilles’ tendons, he was born with steel ones, and when he was an infant a spider snuck into his crib, slit open his heels and spun its silk all over the aberrations. Over time the silk was assimilated. Not only did it reinforce the strength of his steel tendons, it made them pliant and nimble, just like all of the other neighborhood children’s Achilles’ tendons. The only thing is, all of the other neighbor children’s Achilles tendons, which are made of a wet, feeble substance reminiscent of the stems of lily pads, are always snapping, without warning, and usually without the slightest provocation. Since the last thing Derillict’s impervious tendons are about to do is snap, all of the neighborhood children (and their parents, whose Achilles’ tendons are always snapping, too) despise Derillict and wish him ill. Nothing would give the neighborhood more pleasure than to hear two of those guitar string-breaking sounds ringing out of Derillict’s heels, and then to watch him topple over and land on his face. But that’s just not going to happen. Not by natural causes anyway.
Naturally, the townspeople decide it’s time to do something about this boy whose Achilles’ tendons never snap. Why this hasn’t been made into a Netflix original series is beyond me.*
THE IMPULSIVE MAN: The tale of the impulsive man living in a rich family’s piano. Aimless and perhaps the least amusing in the collection.
THE VOICEOVER MAN: A conversation between a doctor and his therapist. The doctor doesn’t want to be a doctor, and his therapist is homeless. Their session is straight out of Waiting for Godot.
PROFESSOR DYSPEPTICAL’S PARROT: A university professor is tired of teaching classes, so he buys a parrot to give his lectures for him. Good idea, until the students decide to do the same. Amusing and a fun concept.*
PITYRIASIS PARK: The park is empty, so the townspeople pretend to be the trees and shrubs and bushes and grass and frolicking dogs. One of the most memorable scenarios in the collection and also begging to be a Netflix original series. You could get 15 seasons out of this place, easily.*
MY BARBARIAN: a heartfelt tale about boy and pet. A timeless tale of loyalty and love. Really, housebreaking should be the first step when one adopts a barbarian.
WHEN A MAN WALKS INTO A ROOM: In a bar modeled on the internals of the human body, populated by naked pornstars free for the taking, one man tells a stranger he’s going to kill him. Just a routine part of life in the big city.
ELEPHANT INVASION: While two housewives are comparing kitchen renovations, the street is invaded by chicken-sized elephants. How does these two react to the invasion? In the most logical way possible. Another of the big standouts in the collection for its imagery and narrative wordplay.*
TEN FLÂNEURS: Ten men like to dress up and pretend to be bowling pins on the streets. If only someone would indulge them. If only.
THE OSTENSIBLY IMMORTAL PIECE OF BREAD: This piece of bread refuses to grow mold on it. Something must be wrong with it. Therefore, the baker must die. Story takes a long time to go nowhere, and that’s the point. Unpleasant but unforgettable.*
STRANGER ON THE LOOSE: The city is obsessed with the Stranger. So obsessed news no longer needs humans to disseminate itself across the population; news of the Stranger’s activities travels on its own. Who is the Stranger? What does he want? Why does he exist? Why are you connected to him? There are no answers, but it’s a fun ride.*
SHRIEK: Always take your coffee black.
EVOLUTION AND ITS VICISSITUDES: “Suddenly, spontaneously, for no biologically determinable reason, the male genitalia developed a method of constant self cleaning that allowed men, once they had finished urinating in public restrooms, to forego the tedious business of washing their hands.”
All is well until it isn’t. It’s a good setup but this time Wilson doesn’t do anything interesting with it.
DISNEY REANIMATED: Disney is brought back from the dead, and then the story doesn’t use this fact. People just unzip their skins and reveal themselves under their personas. An unsatisfying turn with no real connection to the beginning.
“FIE,” SAID HER KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR: Who doesn’t wait up for their knight in shining armor to fight for their honor and hand in marriage? He just has to fight his way past the children on the lawn and the postman at the door. Amusing, but after its predecessors, this one is almost too grounded in reality.
ON FILMNOIRMAKING: A film director argues with a cameraman over whether or not he he doing a good job capturing the aura of a shadow. The conversation is more tedious than bizarre, though I do like how it ends.
THE BACK OF THE MAN’S HAND: A meandering, stream of consciousness musing while a man memorizes the back of his hand. And much like the back of his hand, it’s not very interesting.
A BARBER’S TALE: “One day a barber’s customers decided to start shaving their heads on a regular basis so that they could put him out of business.” Doesn’t go anywhere interesting, but it does have a cute ending.
AVALANCHE OF MY SELF: I don’t understand this one at all.
IGSNAY BÜRDD THE ANIMAL TRAINER: Probably my least favorite. Igsnay is a famous animal trainer, and he’s been hired to train his most difficult animal yet. The story takes a long time to reveal this mysterious animal, and then the story ends. An awful long buildup with not much of a payoff, and the weirdness is more tedious than tantalizing.
_____
The best stories (*) are at the beginning, and they are the ones that establish their own rules and succeed in telling a story using those rules. The pieces in the latter half feel like random nonsense and aren’t as interesting.
Rereading this collection now, I realize it’s the stories in the first half I remember best. They are amazing trips and I highly recommend them.
(E-books used to be simple. You downloaded a PDF and read it on anything you wanted. Then Barnes and Noble bought Fictionwise and killed it, pushing people to buy their exclusive hardware. Amazon decided to take what should be a simple format and make it complicated just to enforce exclusiveness to push its own e-reader. I miss easy ebooks. Happy to still have my PDF of Stranger from Fictionwise.)
November 28, 2012
Like his first short story collection (The Kafka Effekt), Stranger on the Loose displays D. Harlan Wilson’s deft skills as a modern master of absurdist humor and satire.
A good number of these stories contain acts of impersonation, imitation, simulation, etc. A man impersonates a groundhog. A parrot mimics a professor. In a “park” that is little more than a plot of dirt, people impersonate trees, benches, squirrels, and the other things one would normally expect to find in a park. Ten flâneurs who like to pretend to be bowling pins attempt to get bowled over by an person impersonating a bowling ball. Medical students simulate vigilance and hysterics in medical theater. Monkeys posing as scientists resurrect Walt Disney in a simulacrum hospital, after which Mr. Disney discovers he is a Chinese box filled with copies of himself. An animal trainer impersonates famous actors by wearing multiple facemasks, as well as a facsimile of his own face. This recurring theme points to and plays with the poststructuralist idea that modern life is a hyperreality created by sociocultural and media forces, a hyperreality where all human experience is essentially a simulation comprised of symbols and signs that have no referents other than themselves and other signs and symbols. In such a hyperreality, selfhood is just as much of a illusory, unstable, simulated, shifting construct as anything else.
A good number of these stories contain acts of impersonation, imitation, simulation, etc. A man impersonates a groundhog. A parrot mimics a professor. In a “park” that is little more than a plot of dirt, people impersonate trees, benches, squirrels, and the other things one would normally expect to find in a park. Ten flâneurs who like to pretend to be bowling pins attempt to get bowled over by an person impersonating a bowling ball. Medical students simulate vigilance and hysterics in medical theater. Monkeys posing as scientists resurrect Walt Disney in a simulacrum hospital, after which Mr. Disney discovers he is a Chinese box filled with copies of himself. An animal trainer impersonates famous actors by wearing multiple facemasks, as well as a facsimile of his own face. This recurring theme points to and plays with the poststructuralist idea that modern life is a hyperreality created by sociocultural and media forces, a hyperreality where all human experience is essentially a simulation comprised of symbols and signs that have no referents other than themselves and other signs and symbols. In such a hyperreality, selfhood is just as much of a illusory, unstable, simulated, shifting construct as anything else.
October 7, 2008
Stranger on the Loose is an instant cult classic and an excellent follow-up to Wilson's first collection The Kafka Effekt, taking many of the same themes and pushing them further. With more longer stories, Stranger on the Loose satisfies that craving for a sustainable madness in us all.
For those not familiar with Wilson's darkly wry and totally absurd world view Stranger is more than an introduction, it's an immersion. Take for example "The Ostensibly Immortal Piece of Bread" which recounts the plight of a man who finds that he has purchased a piece of bread that never molds. Naturally he must exact revenge upon the baker who sold him this abomination and that entails, among other things, dressing up as a bag lady. Once again Wilson has thrust his characters in hopelessly futile and meaningless situations fraught with plenty of dangers to their ego that make you want to grind your teeth and giggle at the same time.
No one captures the absurdity of modern life like Wilson and no one makes up better phony sounding names. Some of my favorites were Pickering Dymentcha, Rakehell Bartleberry and Derillict Hagadorn. Crafting nonsensical stories that really make you think and feel has got to be difficult but Wilson pulls it off with flair down to the smallest details.
For those not familiar with Wilson's darkly wry and totally absurd world view Stranger is more than an introduction, it's an immersion. Take for example "The Ostensibly Immortal Piece of Bread" which recounts the plight of a man who finds that he has purchased a piece of bread that never molds. Naturally he must exact revenge upon the baker who sold him this abomination and that entails, among other things, dressing up as a bag lady. Once again Wilson has thrust his characters in hopelessly futile and meaningless situations fraught with plenty of dangers to their ego that make you want to grind your teeth and giggle at the same time.
No one captures the absurdity of modern life like Wilson and no one makes up better phony sounding names. Some of my favorites were Pickering Dymentcha, Rakehell Bartleberry and Derillict Hagadorn. Crafting nonsensical stories that really make you think and feel has got to be difficult but Wilson pulls it off with flair down to the smallest details.
December 31, 2007
This book has convinced me that D. Harlan Wilson is the greatest absurdist writer working in the short story medium that I have read and that I must get my hands on his other books. Through a limited amount of pages, each story successfully conceives of a different world, each with its own irrational reality that is governed by Wilson's vast imagination. And every sentence is pure fun. Highly recommended!
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April 5, 2009“D. Harlan Wilson has carved out a fictional style that is completely without peer. Fans of the surreal, the irreal, the weird and the absurd—not to mention anyone who is tired of the giant cookie cutter that is contemporary fiction—should sit up and take notice.” Terror Tales
“Satirical, lyrical, and above all clever, these stories shine. The mood is dark, the satire is priceless, and this book is a must buy.” Crossroads Magic
"Stranger on the Loose is another offering of weird and offbeat short stories from the unique mind of D. Harlan Wilson. In fact, his work is so bizarre that, like D. F. Lewis, he ought to possess his own genre. In certain circles his fiction has been described as "irrealism." Whatever you might call it, reading these stories is akin to taking a journey out of reality and into some place twisted beyond recognition." Whispers of Wickedness
"Stranger on the Loose is an excellent chance to wallow in the stream-of-consciousness of one clever, creative sumbitch." Diagram
“Satirical, lyrical, and above all clever, these stories shine. The mood is dark, the satire is priceless, and this book is a must buy.” Crossroads Magic
"Stranger on the Loose is another offering of weird and offbeat short stories from the unique mind of D. Harlan Wilson. In fact, his work is so bizarre that, like D. F. Lewis, he ought to possess his own genre. In certain circles his fiction has been described as "irrealism." Whatever you might call it, reading these stories is akin to taking a journey out of reality and into some place twisted beyond recognition." Whispers of Wickedness
"Stranger on the Loose is an excellent chance to wallow in the stream-of-consciousness of one clever, creative sumbitch." Diagram
March 15, 2008
Just finished with this one. If you're looking for off-the-wall humor and extreme absurdity then you'll love this book. D. Harlan Wilson has style, orginality, and imagination. I'm looking forward to reading more by this author in the future.
One thing I should mention about Wilson is that so far from what I've read he has a very fixed style. Having such a fixed style can be good or bad, depending on if, as a reader, you like the style he remains faithful too.
One thing I should mention about Wilson is that so far from what I've read he has a very fixed style. Having such a fixed style can be good or bad, depending on if, as a reader, you like the style he remains faithful too.
October 21, 2012
I already knew Wilson was a great writer before I read this book. It just reinforced that percept.
Some fantastic short, even flash, pieces of writing that take absurdity to a new level. Coming up with interesting concepts and a real talent for writing engaging prose, Wilson is going places.
I highly recommend this to fans of absurd humour and/or great writing.
Some fantastic short, even flash, pieces of writing that take absurdity to a new level. Coming up with interesting concepts and a real talent for writing engaging prose, Wilson is going places.
I highly recommend this to fans of absurd humour and/or great writing.
April 18, 2012
Imagine Monty Python and David Lynch doing an anthology film together. That's what you get with this book, 220 pages of bizarre and often times screamingly funny stories. A classic of the genre and a must read!
December 10, 2008
Surreal short stories. My favorites were "Restaurant", "Cops and Bodybuilders" (hilarious!) and "Digging For Adults" (creepy).
November 4, 2010
This is my favorite type of book: equal parts intimidating and inspiring.
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