Fiction. Music. "The stories in James Brubaker's LINER NOTES are extraordinary, with lines that recall Ben Marcus and Gabriel Blackwell. It's amazing what Brubaker's fiction does with language and the obsession with music, sound, and pop culture. An erudite work of avant-garde fiction, with cameos by Phil Spector, Albert Ayler, Brian Wilson, Flavor Flav, and a beautiful woman named Yoko, Brubaker's brilliant fiction is like listening to your favorite album on vinyl: deeply moving and very, very smart."—Brandon Hobson

Liner Notes

Brubaker, James

Literature & Fiction

Subito Press

Fiction. PILOT SEASON opens with a television executive attempting to save his floundering network's fall roster. As his own anxieties, disappointments, and alienation from his family play out through a steady stream of absurd television pilots, we are treated to sardonic parodies of our contemporary reality show—obsessed media culture. While critiquing the cruelty and exploitation of the medium, PILOT SEASON also manages to laud the human spirit's ability to trump our flaws.

Pilot Season

sunnyoutside

<p>In Black Magic Death Sphere: (science) fictions a young man cites his obsession with the creation of alternate universes as a rationalization for not answering his girlfriend's marriage proposal; James Franco travels to the edge of the universe where he meets a slightly different version of himself with whom he lives out the rest of his life; a man, snowed in at his hotel, meets a future version of himself who has questionable intentions; and the famous Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment comes to life in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure story. These are just a few of the genre-bending tales contained within this weird, funny, and anxious set of mind-blown and broken-hearted science fiction stories.</p>

Black Magic Death Sphere: (Science) Fictions (Kilgore Trout)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Urban Farmhouse Press

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