Steven Moore writes with formidable erudition, playful invention, and a capacious imagination, transforming the history of the novel into a dazzling, irreverent, and endlessly provocative exploration of literature’s subversive possibilities; so you can imagine how delighted I am to receive Moore’s advance praise for Among the Dynamos (BlazeVOX [books]), my forthcoming novel:
“While at times I felt like I was doomscrolling through a gallery of artsy eccentrics curated by a witty, erudite content-creator, it’s the language that kept me scrolling. Not a word is wasted in this searing critique of our hot-mess society, served up in meaty prose marbled with puns, wordplay, arch adjectives and adverbs, and cultural allusions aplenty (beginning with the novel’s title). Like Nirvana’s video for ‘In Bloom,’ which the narrator loves, Among the Dynamos is ‘a masterpiece, a profound artistic statement, its satire absolutely corrosive. Hilariously self-deprecating and intelligently critical of the celebrity-industrial complex.’ At one point, the narrator wonders: ‘Maybe art is both toxin and cure, like a vaccine’; Madera’s novel is both.”
—Steven Moore, author of The Novel: An Alternative History
JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 