JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher

Kurt Baumeister is among this infernal nation’s finest prose stylists and satirists, so you can imagine my immense delight to receive this advance praise from him today for Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press), my forthcoming collection of experimental fictions:

“In a literary landscape in which originality is often spoken of but seldom truly delivered, John Madera is the exception—an uncompromising writer and thinker whose singular vision is, indeed, his North Star. Linguistically rich, formally challenging, and intellectually intoxicating, Nervosities reads like the work of a mad genius torn between saving the world of letters and watching it burn.” —Kurt Baumeister, author of Twilight of the Gods and Pax Americana

Garielle Lutz’s ingenious fiction is a masterclass in how to torque, sculpt, and swerve sentences and paragraphs into something engagingly strange and marvelous, something somewhere pleasurably elsewhere. So you can imagine my immense delight to receive this advance praise from her today for Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press), my forthcoming collection of experimental fictions:

 “The fourteen sententially ambitious and masterly entries in Nervosities introduce us to a bold and startling new force in American fiction. John Madera is a learned and scathingly observant chronicler of our turmoil, and his prose is some of the most robust, ruckussing, and gravely brilliant I have read in ages.”—Garielle Lutz, author of Stories In the Worst Way, I Looked Alive, Divorcer, and Worsted

(Image: Bridget Riley’s Metamorphosis, 1964)

Thanks, Yrik-Max Valentonis, for this advance praise for Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press):

“Mining the zeitgeist, John Madera’s Nervosities deeply explores characters on the periphery of recent and sometimes catastrophic historic events. Here sentential torrents attack conventional narrative form, riffing on themes, placing well-chosen details, like a commanding jazz solo. Like the characters in Nervosities—each one trapped in a kind of mental Hall of Mirrors—readers of this book will be compelled to ask themselves, Who am I and why am I here?”—Yrik-Max Valentonis, author of iDEAL, 120 Days of Gomorrah, and Cranium Theatre

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(Image: Bridget Riley’s Gala, 1974)

Rikki Ducornet is easily one of the world’s finest writers, a paragon of the radical imagination, of vital subversion, of the wild and the marvelous. So you can imagine my extreme delight to share Ducornet’s advance praise for Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press), my forthcoming collection of experimental fictions:

“A spirited shake-up of language and expectations, Nervosities nails our unmoored reality with humor, attentiveness, and a bountiful imagination.” —Rikki Ducornet, author over twenty-five books

(Image: Bridget Riley’s Cataract 3 (1967))