NUMBSKULL

by No Glykon

Numbskull is a cat-type thing. It’s a safe word for having serious conversations. It’s graffiti scrawled on a broken speaker. Framed by No Glykon’s fine-tuned minimalism, 'Numbskull' is a hazy shot tracking youth in decay: four fuckheads flickering through basement noise shows, the gun aisle in Walmart, internships out in Endless Summer, and trepidatious texts about maybe getting some drinks tomorrow night. Everything in 'Numbskull' is a little blurry or out of focus or whatever. So go ahead and tear up your clothes for fashion. Grow some golden antlers. Put an apple on your head and let 'Numbskull' pull the trigger.

115 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2020

Reviews

[Cavin · Rating 5 out of 5]

An incredibly strange book that is difficult to describe. On the surface, young adults hangout and mess around and converse. But it's so much more than a "house of people hanging out." NUMBSKULL is magical in a way where you see it as a book but it's not a book. It's a book-type-thing, free of concrete descriptors, seemingly aimless. A novel like a bike ride through a park and your friends disappear into a black tunnel and you're approaching the tunnel too. You can't hear your friends but you feel them there, in the darkness, so close and yet so far.

[Josh Dale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really bounced back and forth with this one, but settled on the experience. Unsure how to classify this novel, yet the metaphysical river carries you along the adventures of the characters. Full of deep introspection and unique moments. Has a dreamy, almost cyberpunk, feel from start to finish.