New bad news: stories
β Scribed by Ryan Ridge
- Publisher
- Sarabande Books
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In New Bad News , the frenetic and far-out worlds of fading celebrities, failed festival promoters, underemployed adjuncts, and overly aware chatbots collide. A Terminator statue comes to life at the Hollywood Wax Museum; a coyote laps up Colt 45, as a passerby looks on in existential quietude; a detective disappears while investigating a missing midwestern cam girl. Set in Kentucky, Hollywood, and the afterlife, these bright, bold short-shorts and stories construct an uncannily familiar, alternate-reality America.
β¦ Subjects
Short Stories
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