Paul Kavanagh

Ennio Flaiano

Patty Yumi Cottrell

Eugene Lim

Brad Baumgartner

Pierre Senges

Berit Ellingsen

Adam McOmber

Friederike Mayröcker

Adam Golaski

Donald Breckenridge

Adam Lovasz

Meghan Lamb

John Trefry

Evan Lavender-Smith

Ashley David

Daniel James Fraser

Elliott Niblock

Frank Garrett

Haley Hemenway Sledge

Ian Dreiblatt

Iris Moulton

K. Thomas Kahn

Lital Khaikin

Helmut Dosantos

Jesse Kohn

Matt Trease

Boredom As a Luxury: Ennui

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Donald Breckenridge takes readers on a hypnotically broken journey, chronicling his fathers slow and deliberate death, interweaving the stories of others: a young woman's hopeful arrival in New York City, a young man's voyeuristic summer spent housesitting for his professor, and a soldier who never made it out of Vietnam. What they all have in common is a deep preoccupation with the way lives resonate and connect, an emotionally honest love story about how we relate to others and ourselves. And Then will be treasured by readers who look to literature to find solace and meaning in trying times.

And Then

Fiction. ROCKAWAY WHEREIN is a non-linear juxtaposition of the intentions and actions of its characters. Blowing on my numb hands while descending a flight of stairs at the subway entrance. I purchase a token, place it in the slot and push myself through the turnstile. Encouraged by the warm look in her eyes. 'Why don't you take off your coat, she says in a voice that seems too low and theatrical, lying languidly on a daybed covered with small silk pillows. Perfectbound chapbook.

Rockaway Wherein

Fiction. In a New York City where time is chopped up like salad and people finish each others' sentences, a dozen characters with names out of songs by The Fall have love affairs and take parts in a one-act play in the summer of 2001, and the spring, summer, and fall of 2004. YOU ARE HERE is part Fassbinder anti-theatre, part cheap heartbreak a la Brenda Starr, part intertextual hall of mirrors. Donald Breckenridge's stunning prose spins into life a world of ideas and art--that nevertheless can come to a dead halt in a heartbeat.

Fiction. Assistant editors include Jen Zoble, Stefanie Sobelle, and Claudia Acevedo, with an introduction by Albert Mobilio. Contributors include Eugene Ionesco, Emmanuel Bove, Valeria Parella, Lewis Warsh, Saadat Hasan Manto, Akutagawa Ryonosuke, Christine Schutt, Diane Williams, Julio Cortazar, Fernando Pessoa, Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud, Marquis de Sade, Dawn Raffel, Douglas Glover, Mario Benedetti, Charles Bukowski, Laird Hunt, Shelley Jackson, Fatima Yousef, Victor Hugo Viscarra, Tom Motley, Anatoly Gabrilov, Gilbert Sorrentino, Robert Walser, Luc Lang, Richard Kostelanetz, and Johannah Rodgers.

The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology 2

Donald Breckenridge

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