This New & Poisonous Air

Written in the New Wave Fabulist tradition, these historically-grounded stories blend the fantastic and the macabre in astonishing, unforgettable ways.

List of contents

The Automatic Garden
There Are No Bodies Such as This
A Memory of His Rising
Fall, Orpheum
A Man of History
Beneath Us
This New and Poisonous Air
Gardens of the Moon
Of Wool
Night is Nearly Done
Poet and Underworld
Egyptomania

About the author

Adam McOmber: Adam McOmber is the assistant director of Creative Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago where he teaches both nonfiction and literature with a focus on mythology. He is the associate editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika. His work has recently been published in Conjunctions, StoryQuarterly, Third Coast, The Greensboro Review, Arts and Letters, Ascent, Web Conjunctions and Quarterly West. In 2012, This New and Poisonous Air was chosen as one of NewCity Lit's "Lit 50" in Chicago. McOmber holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Indiana University. This New and Poisonous Air is his first book.

Summary

Written in the New Wave Fabulist tradition, these historically-grounded stories blend the fantastic and the macabre in astonishing, unforgettable ways.

Product details

• Authors: Adam McOmber
• Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2011
• EAN: 9781934414514
• ISBN: 978-1-934414-51-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 226 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: American Readers; American Reader Series; American Readers; American Readers Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature