Lee Klein

Neutral Evil )))

Literary Nonfiction. THANKS AND SORRY AND GOOD LUCK compiles a dozen years of disappointment transmitted via e-mail from a single editor to hundreds of writers around the world. Performative and funny one minute, respectful and constructive the next, these rejections both serve as entertaining writing tips (suitable for use in today's more adventuresome creative writing classrooms) and suggest a skewed story about a boy and his seminal literary website, Eyeshot.net, which Lee Klein founded in 1999. What started as a lark—sending playful rejection notes to writers who'd submitted work for the site—over ten years took on a life of its own, becoming an outlet for Klein to meditate on his aesthetic preferences, the purpose of literature, and the space between the ideal and the real.

Rejection Letters from the Eyeshot Outbox

Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck

David Barringer

Dan Kennedy

Ryan Boudinot

Pasha Malla

Arthur Bradford

Susannah Breslin

Andrew Bomback

Elizabeth Ellen

Susan Townsend

John Leary

Dennis Dillingham

Pia Ehrhardt

Shauna McKenna

Damon Stewart

The third print issue by both literary journals - Hobart and Monkeybicycle - it features full issues by each in a flip-cover double-issue style. Hobart features stories by Andrew Bomback, Pia Ehrhardt, Elizabeth Ellen and John Leary and artwork by Andrew Feuk. Monkeybicycle features stories by David Barringer, Ryan Boudinot, Susannah Breslin, Dan Kennedy and an exquisite corpse by Arthur Bradford, Ed Page, Whitney Pastorek Shya Scanlon, Steven Seighman and Claire Zulkey.

Hobart/Monkeybicycle #3

Take a walk alongside Murakami's parallel worlds, Wes Anderson's humor and radical elegance, Franz Kafka's metaphorical ventures and Charlie Kaufman's radiant melancholy. Enter a dark and joyous exploration of how we deal with our particularities, how we deal with grief, how we deal with unthinkable thoughts and unexpressed urges. An OMG exploration of WTF . . . If Willful Suspension of Disbelief were a race in the literary Olympics, this moving and luminous debut would set the record. If this novel were edible, it'd be less like a plate of meat than an inside-out eel roll atop a Russian doll.Set in suburban New Jersey at the dawn of the Internet age, this imaginatively unhinged yet formally controlled contemporary fable dramatizes the struggle between impulsivity and restraint. A sort of semi-perverted post-YA novel, it's about confronting disbelief, overcoming obstacles imposed by self and others, and negotiating challenges associated with a vital inner life. Hot air balloons! Terraria! Goop storms! Never has a semi-illustrated story about longing, loss, and love been so good-natured, inventive, and insane. "A moving, modern meditation on loss and renewal, The Shimmering Go-Between isrecommended for readers who want innovation and whimsy without losing the heart and soulthat makes a story resonate long after it's been read." - Foreword ReviewsAn "intricately layered debut novel that manages to reorganize the landscapes of conception, birth, death, Heaven and New Jersey . . . Klein leads the reader to a ledge of unbelievability and dares the reader to believe . . . and then he pushes you off that ledge. Giggling." - Word RiotFile under:Contemporary American Fabulism

The Shimmering Go-Between

Lee Klein

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