Travels with an Anti-Travel Novel: On Kawika Guillermo’s “Stamped”
Stamped: an anti-travel novel by Kawika Guillermo Westphalia Press, 2018 346 pages / Westphalia Just a few weeks ago, I left China after spending almost a year in Chengdu, Sichuan.…
Stamped: an anti-travel novel by Kawika Guillermo Westphalia Press, 2018 346 pages / Westphalia Just a few weeks ago, I left China after spending almost a year in Chengdu, Sichuan.…
When I’m looking for a book, I look for stylists. It’s not the just the story, it’s how it’s told. That’s a pretty boring thing to say, but it’s true. Our first writer we published was Kyle Coma-Thompson. That’s a writer who has a lot to say, and he says it in a way that really isn’t like anyone else. His stuff can be polarizing, and often puzzling, but the way he writes, the way he pays attention to the sentence is remarkable. He’s soon to be a force.
“Fear of danger is a funny thing, too. It … definitely has an agenda of its own. It’s ironic how danger doesn’t present itself when we’d expect, but instead creeps…
[[there.]] by Lance Olsen Anti-Oedipus Press, January 2014 Anti-Oedpius / Amazon Written at the time he was in Germany, and perhaps inspired by the novels of David Markson, Olsen takes the…