Grant Maierhofer

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Peripatet

Mike Kleine

Tatiana Ryckman

Gary Shipley

Christina Tudor-Sideri

Garett Strickland

Mike Corrao

Rosie Snajdr

Arielle Tipa

A. S. Coomer

Germán Sierra

Candice Wuehle

Benjamin DeVos

James Nulick

David Leo Rice

Evan Isoline

James Tadd Adcox

Sean Kilpatrick

B. R. Yeager

Elisa Taber

Mónica Belevan

Judson Hamilton

Joshua Rothes

Ryan Napier

Joshua Young

Nathan Dragon

Andrew Wilt

Garett Dennert

Ali Raz

Vincent James Perrone

Kenny Mooney

Tyler Crumrine

Adam Tedesco

Jake Reber

A collectively written novel composed of 34 unique voices from the expanded field.

Collected Voices in the Expanded Field

Clog

"X, a young Midwestern novelist of uncertain talent, attends a Chicago-based writing program and relapses, after a few years of relative, Celexa-fueled relief from depression and self-harm. Though his world grows dark and cold, and he moves away from society with the unerring sincerity of the pilgrim, we never lose faith in X, due to Maierhofer's impressive storytelling. He's good both at the level of detail (and sentence), and in the larger picture (and for what might still be called "plot," even in a novel so postmodern and affectless). Postures establishes itself early on as a guide to young America, but if I'd read the French translation, I would be thinking of Baudelaire, his poetry and fury and contempt and his sadness and his call for a transfixing fire."- Kevin Killian, author of Spreadeagle"Part Beckett, part Unabomber manifesto, part Laurie Weeks, Grant Maierhofer's Flamingos is singularly alive and wild." - Maggie NelsonA dauntingly prolific and daring writer, Grant Maierhofer tears his way through the terra firma of received language to roiling realms that writers rarely reach. *Bleach* will seep into your brainpan and give it the stinging deep-cleanse you know it needs. -Gari Lutz

Works

A collection of related stories that deal with the anxiety, pain, and ennui of addiction and withdrawal Drain Songs gathers five stories and a novella focused on the many trials of modern life—addiction and depression, mania and disorder, attempts and failure at keeping the worst at bay. Grant Maierhofer’s stories focus on characters in varying states of disarray and stuckness, continuing his literary project of analyzing lives on the fringes of sanity and society. The novella “Drain Songs” is a harrowing narrative focused squarely on addiction and recovery, twelve-step programs, and codependency. In all of these tales, Maierhofer takes a bee’s eye view of protagonists from all walks of life, from the working class to the academy, from janitors to professors, embodying the commonalities of men and women struggling with the very fundamental elements of survival, perspective, and identity—attempts formal and informal to contend with the trials that forever engage and perplex humanity. His evocative prose conveys both despair and resignation as well as stultifying, brain-deadening routine and repetition. Still, these stories transcend angst and tilt toward agony and ecstasy and the hope of redemption.

Stories and a Novella

Drain Songs

GAG: a sequence of rotting doors / mild suburban hell / rooms lorded over by men of obscenity / a blighted novella /sister book to PX138 3100-2686 User's Manual / a little limb, little dog / bodies trapped in basements / leather, plastic, film / pile of burnt manuscripts / Antonin Artaud's body writhing on an asylum floor / the outside world of light and terrors / an offensive dictionary / a song of TV's great criminals / mere book / the acorns on the forgotten grave of Donatien Alphonse Fran�ois de Sade / a collection of evidence from taped cabinets."Strange and severe, reworking language into a series of ritual gestures, Gag takes the words and phrases you thought you knew and with them performs a new way of speaking, one that is sensation-based rather than knowledge-based. Gag is the kind of book that recomposes itself in the compost of your brain so that only days later do you realize what it's done to you."--Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses, Altmann's Tongue, and others"Reading Grant Maierhofer's Gag should feel like driving a manual car for the first time: jerky, disorienting, and neurotic." --Vi Khi Nao, author of Fish in Exile"Gag takes place in a haunting and unpredictable world where silence is pure, violence is a career, and everyone is meat. Reading this book is like entering a dream, or a nightmare, depending on the page." --Chelsea Hodson, author of Pity the Animal

Grant Maierhofer

Books

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