![]() ![]() Hi, Brian, thank you so much for taking the time out to chat with me! Where are you writing from, and how are you holding up? These stories are devastating and treacherous, yes, and yet, so many of the conceptual underpinnings here reveal the fundamental strangeness and precarity of life today.īelow, I speak with the author about writing life under quarantine, the idea of ‘safeness’ in literature, and the structure of this collection-one which lends a narrative to the book as a whole an arc of gradual collapse. The stories in A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press), likewise, are treacherous things: a teddy bear is brought to life by a miscarried fetus’s heartbeat an off-planet mining operation slowly saturates with dust and dead bodies two men are stoned by the inhabitants of a walled town a man is imprisoned in a facility where torture is randomized. They stretch circumstance to convey the uncertain and unsettling they confuse, morph lead you to a room in your house that nobody else can see. ![]() ![]() Brian Evenson’s words unsteady the best of readers. ![]()
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