Jim Krusoe, Author . Tin House $14.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-9794198-2-9
In the basement of a Southern California yogurt shop one hot summer night, Jonathan, a down-on-his-luck fro-yo slinger, discovers several young, beautiful naked women encased in glass and suspended lifelessly in a milky mixture. Jonathan's boss,
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Jim Krusoe, Tin House, $14.95 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-0-9825691-1-5
Krusoe (Erased) delivers his whimsical absurdity in the regrettably monotone final installment of his trilogy about life, death, and the afterlife. Bob has been trying to build a device to communicate with the dead ever since his days at the...
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Jim Krusoe. Tin House (Norton, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-941040-18-8
The subterranean setting of Krusoe's (Parsifal) latest is "the Burrow," a "low mound that rises out of earth." Here, residents exist somewhere between reality and daydreams, inner thoughts and action. But are their daydreams and obsessions any...
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Jim Krusoe, Author, Lee Montgomery, Editor, James Krusoe, Author Boaz Corporation $18.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-9651879-1-6
""Close by the fabulous faux Tudor home where I live these days, there is a notorious pedagogue of literature who is known for his dictum, `Tell a dream; lose a reader.'"" So begins one characteristically bizarre, deadpan sequence in this very funny
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Jim Krusoe, Author, James Krusoe, Author . Dalkey Archive $14.95 (182p) ISBN 978-1-56478-314-1
Krusoe's whimsical, ironic debut novel (following his story collection, Blood Lake) conjures up Kafka on antidepressants, as Krusoe tracks the decidedly strange adventures of a typewriter repairman named Paul after one of his organs begins to...
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Jim Krusoe. Tin House, $15.95 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-935639-34-3
Krusoe’s latest (after Toward You) is a self-reflective coming-of-age story wrapped in a fable and sprinkled with wry observations. Parsifal was raised in the forest and, though he lives in town as an adult, he’s perpetually called back to his roots,
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