Psychedelic Everest

Psychedelic EverestPsychedelic Everest is Brion Poloncic's second book for JEF: a love story wrapped in a stream of consciousness narrative, punctuated by verbal hijinks, sweet and lyrical a novella on the inevitability of love, on art, and on the nature of genius and madness. Poloncic came to fiction in 2012 after a recording career as A Tomato A Day, begun in 1993, and a self taught visual art practice begun in 2006. JEF founder Eckhard Gerdes has called him the

The Pirandellan subtitle is a fair warning: a novel that keeps looking for the authority that would explain it

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assembled the way JEF has built its single-author tributes since Raymond Federman proposed an entire issue devoted to his own work

Hugunin won the inaugural Reva and David Logan Award for Distinguished New Writing in the Field of Photography in 1983

Before he was a novelist and poet

no tribute subject

A man screams in pain as if singing an Indian raga for a pittance

this one narrows to a single subject and presses it until photography itself is asked to account for how time fails to stand still

Its prime symptom is that they are driven apart into separate realities

and World (Dis)order is James R

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asking how individual human nature shapes the course of a life — the prison frame doing in compressed form the work a longer book would spread across chapters