"It is astonishing, unlike anything I have ever read. It is at once sophisticated and acute, which I believe adds to its unique form."
-John Carey, FBA, FRSL
on
CUT UP (2012, The Republic of Letters Books)
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Conor Robin Madigan is the author of CUT UP, and several excerpts of novels placed as short stories in the US and abroad. He won the Rick Demarinis Contest judged by MacArthur Fellow Manuel Muñoz. He is a MFAW graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His non-fiction was published in The Fortnightly Review and PIF Mag. Most recently a story was in Contrary Journal of Unpopular Discontent.
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"A raw, chaotic collection of voices from the Midwest's backwoods, but obviously the work of a real writer: vivid, mad, and full of that desperation which roots in American outcasts."
-Keith Botsford
"I forget how I came across this book. My partner actually started reading it first. She's into the modernists and she said it reminded her of Willa Cather. I picked it up when she finished it and it made me think of Faulkner. We were both wrong. This book exists in its own realm. The language is a little difficult at first, but once you get into it, you realize you're thick in the middle of this beautiful, harsh Indiana landscape."
-Patrick Cottrell
The author who begins a novel puts into his hero many things which he is obliged to discard as he goes on. Perhaps he will take them up later in other books, and make new characters with them, who will seem like extracts from, or rather like complements of, the first; but they will almost always appear somewhat poor and limited in comparison with the original character. --HENRI BERGSON
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