Michael Martone is a literary giant whose brilliant, exemplary, ingenious, absolutely singular writing is inspiring, to say the least, so you can imagine my extreme delight to share Michael’s advance praise for Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press), my forthcoming collection of experimental fictions:
“Borges asks us to imagine maps more detailed than the things they represent. John Madera, mad Mercator that he is, gives us, in the gyrating GPS that is Nervosities, a whole atlas of super-saturated jazzed and jazzy tympanically tsk-tsking texts. Verving veneers, swerving stories like laminated anatomies that peal and peel, fox and flex their way through the advanced math of the Four-Color Theorem. These fictions zoom. They scale and scald, flay and flux. Walls of words, they do tip-top topo cartography of every thing’s everything…and more.” —Michael Martone, author of over twenty-five books, including Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana and The Complete Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone
(Image: Bridget Riley’s Cataract 3 (1967))
JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 