Those Brave As the Skate Is

Those Brave As the Skate IsThose Brave As the Skate Is is two books in one binding: an innovative novel followed by a separately demarcated manifesto on Pescetarealism, the aesthetic program Patrick Keller coined in 2010. The novel does not gesture toward the manifesto; the manifesto answers for the novel, on the page, immediately after. Keller frames Pescetarealism as an extension of Raymond Federman and Ronald Sukenick's egalitarian surfiction, tilted away from performance,

the novelist Jønathan Lyons

physics formulas

first appeared in JEF's pages in Belighted Fiction alongside the story writer Amina Memory Cain

JEF has been running anthologies of this kind for forty years

and other documentary source material and treats them with minimal

an inner projectionist running views of his past

the day's small motions thinking themselves out at length

Red Girl summons the occupants of Kimberly's dungeon mind - including the Laughing Corpse

JEF published it in September 2025

Longing for Kimberly's love

Panic-stricken

but left behind this novel