A twisted, exhilarating and darkly strange vision of our time, explored in thirteen interconnected episodes.
Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people.Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us, turned on its head by one of the most innovative voices of the moment.Read together, these parallel-universe stories create a composite portrait of our true nature and a dark reflection of the world we live in.
A little revelation . . . The fantastical tales in this delightful book poke, with gleeful audacity, at the edges of contemporary America and late capitalism . . . Transitions of sex, gender, family, geographical borders, digital communication, language and even neurological states are examined in thrillingly imaginative stories . . . A witty, exuberant collection which variously reminded me of The Paper Menagerie, Friday Black, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Years and Years. Mind-bending, like all the best drugs Big Issue
Matthew Baker is the author of the story collection Hybrid Creatures. His stories have appeared in the Paris Review, American Short Fiction, New England Review, One Story, Electric Literature and Conjunctions, and in anthologies including Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the MacDowell Colony, among many others, he has an MFA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the founding editor of Nashville Review. Born in Michigan, he currently lives in New York City.
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Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people.
Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us, turned on its head by one of the most innovative voices of the moment.
Read together, these parallel-universe stories create a composite portrait of our true nature and a dark reflection of the world we live in.
There has been unprecedented TV and film interest in Matthew Baker's short stories. 8 of the 13 stories in this collection have been optioned for TV and film. 'Life Sentence' was won by Netflix in a nine-way, six-figure auction that also included Warner Bros., Universal Pictures and Apple and will be produced by Matt Reeves, director of 'Planet of the Apes'. 'Transition' has been sold to Amazon, 'Rites' has been sold to James Ponsoldt, director of 'The Circle', and 'Lost Souls' is being made into a feature film by Fox Searchlight
