Books by James Greer and Complete Book Reviews
James Greer, Author . Akashic $15.95 (333p) ISBN 978-1-933354-00-2
Following the alleged suicide of a rock legend in 1994, a 22-year-old librarian called Fiat Lux disappears, leaving behind her 21 notebooks recording the circumstances surrounding the death. The rocker, who fronted for the band N, is known only as...
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James Greer, Author . Akashic $15.95 (201p) ISBN 978-1-933354-97-2
A robbery goes awry for a young L.A. slacker on a get-rich-quick scheme in Greer’s cleverly fashioned, flimsy second novel (after Artificial Light
). Protagonist Guy Forget wants his square MIT professor brother, Marcus, to lend him the $50,000
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James Greer. Curbside Splendor, $15.95 (125p) ISBN 978-0-9834228-8-4
To brand James Greer’s slim new collection, Everything Flows, “experimental fiction” would be to sell it painfully short. Experimental fiction has its own rules and acceptable parameters, and Greer, a former bassist for the band Guided by Voices,...
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James Greer. And Other Stories, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-913505-34-9
Musician and screenwriter Greer (Everything Flows) delivers a zany and messy story of a literary translator hired by an infamous French author referred to as “Not Houellebecq.” Vanessa Salomon, 29, lives in a New York City apartment once inhabited...
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