Meghan Lamb

"Meghan Lamb's debut novel is a marvel. It's an indelible portrait of a nearly forgotten place, full of stunted lives and desperate hopes, decaying homes and fading memories, ghostly presences brought vividly to life. It's a timely exploration of the failures that seep into our lives like slow leaks and the systems that intensify them. It's a haunted landscape made luminous by Lamb's exquisite prose." -Jeff Jackson, author of Destroy All Monsters "Failure to Thrive captures slow collapse like nothing else I've read. It is packed with heartbreakingly acute observation, and yet it is uncrowded and spacious, with a gauzy, hallucinatory quality. Both expansive and economical, it does more with the form of the novel than most books will ever attempt. It's a gem glittering in the dark." -Lindsay Lerman, author of I'm From Nowhere "Meghan Lamb is such an exquisite, comprehensively intelligent, dreamy writer. Failure to Thrive exudes utmost pleasure and a defying ache from every dot of its ink, like the sun." -Dennis Cooper, author of The Marbled Swarm

Failure to Thrive

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

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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