I’ve long reveled in Lance Olsen’s brilliant, unruly, and otherwise disruptive writing, writing as writhing, writing as rupture, as a breaking of the so-called order of things, so you can imagine my extreme delight to share Lance’s advance praise for Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press), my forthcoming collection of experimental fictions:
“A total-immersion catastrophe theme park comprised of fierce cosmopolitan intelligence, heterodox sentences, and deranged forms, John Madera’s Nervosities evinces a beautiful rage before our whirled world in which there is always a bomb secreted a couple feet away, the timer ticking down. Listen: a rare new fiery presence has just landed in the literary jungle.”
—Lance Olsen, author of Skin Elegies, Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie, and many other books
(Image: Bridget Riley’s Metamorphosis, 1964)
JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 