A writer walks the entirety of New York City searching for a story, inspiration, anything to give him some direction. While navigating the busier blocks of Times Square, he stumbles upon a restaurant opening and an enigmatic man named Jiro protesting the grand opening. Believing it’s the only way to maintain Jiro’s interest, he claims to be a director, someone interested in developing a project that reveals to the world Jiro’s unseen culinary talent. Eventually, the truth comes out, and he comes face-to-face with what it means to be creative in a passionless world.

Dreams of Being

Seidlinger, Michael J.

Literature & Fiction

Maudlin House

Dexter meets Secretary in Michael J. Seidlinger's provocative, disturbing literary thriller that reinvents the serial killer genre, exploring the psychology of desire. Claire studies forensic science, Victor is the Gentleman Killer. Subverting expectations, Clair seduces Victor and keeps him in her apartment as her pet, her darkest secret. Beautifully written, provocative to read, Seidlinger delves into Claire's motivations and impetus to present a compelling psychosexual portrait of a woman obsessed with performance, with power, with sex, and with gore.

My Pet Serial Killer

Literary

Encyclopocalypse Publications

Scream (Object Lessons)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Bloomsbury Academic

'SUGAR' WILLEM FLOURES That's a name I built from the ground up. I wasn't the first to systematically climb the ranks, beating the sugar out of everyone I had known to be inferior, leaving only the sour taste of defeat, my claim forever being: "I am the greatest!" 
I can still hear it now. In the silence of this locker room, blood drying on my face, I can still hear those words. 
And I was. I was the greatest. 
JAB LEFT HOOK JAB LEFT HOOK RIGHT HOOK JAB STRAIGHT TO THE BODY: JAB JAB POWER SHOT STRAIGHT POWER SHOT STRAIGHT UPPERCUT And then a voice says, "'Sugar'... you are no longer sweet with the science."

The Laughter of Strangers

Lazy Fascist Press

"Michael Seidlinger is a homegrown Calvino, a humanist, and wise and darkly whimsical. His invisible cities are the spires of the sea where we all sail our coffins in search of our stories."-Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville Two lovers are adrift in a coffin on an endless sea. Who are they? They are him and her. They are you and me. They are rowing to salvage what remains of themselves. They are rowing to remember the fun we've had.

The Fun We've Had

What happens when a woman gives birth to a machine gun?

Mother of a Machine Gun

A man without a face infects the lives of others, becoming the person he discovers to be most interesting, feasting on their flaws, peering into their peculiarities in order to fulfill their meaningless desires. The main protagonist of the novel has lost his identity in favor of, much like a genie, being able to adopt, accentuate, and adorn the identities of others. He cannot remember his past or how this condition came to be; for all he knows, he's always been faceless and invisible, forced to watch others, reading their eyes, interpreting every facial gesture, while seeking the most interesting flaw. He is one of the people, if only the people would notice him standing there, right next to them, staring back, as if to say, "Hey, I know you..." When you have the face of any other, you see the cracks peeling apart a person's face, showing bone, bleeding with the hidden anguish of hushed nerves. You feel each and every nerve tensing, and you feel for them--for everyone--when they buckle, unable to bear the burden of each daunting episode. When you spend all your time and energy making sure the people around you are happy, no one will question whether or not you feel the same way. No one is there to question your motivations.

The Face of Any Other

What if your mother was a wedge of lemon? Would you still be a mess? The first Lazy Fascist double features two original works, Messes of Men by Michael J Seidlinger and Lemon Heart by Matthew Revert.

Lazy Fascist Double #1: Messes of Men/Lemon Heart

Revert, Matthew

About the Author\nMichael J. Seidlinger is a Filipino American author of My Pet Serial Killer, Dreams of Being, and other books. He has written for, among others, Buzzfeed, Thrillist, Goodreads, The Observer, Polygon, The Believer, and Publishers Weekly. He teaches at Portland State University and has led workshops at Catapult, Kettle Pond Writer's Conference, and Sarah Lawrence.\nIn RUNAWAYS: A WRITER'S DILEMMA, author Michael J. Seidlinger centers a magnifying glass on the creative journey, with an honest and unabashed search into how and why someone would want to be accepted as a writer in a world that might not care. The book's breezy narrative contrasts with the despair that is often triggered by the wasteland of social media and the Internet. This is a story that reminds the reader that they aren't alone in a culture that pressures us to measure our work on a purely capitalistic level, driven by likes, hearts, and money. Like a darker and more skewed literary version of the metaphysical classic, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Seidlinger's RUNAWAYS:A WRITER'S DILEMMA shows us how our art, often made in solitary, can be the more important and inspiring part of living. 
Fiction.

Runaways: A Writer's Dilemma

United States

Future Tense Books

Enigmatic Ink

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Books by Seidlinger, Michael J.

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Dreams of Being

My Pet Serial Killer

Scream (Object Lessons)

The Laughter of Strangers

The Fun We've Had

Mother of a Machine Gun

The Face of Any Other

Lazy Fascist Double #1: Messes of Men/Lemon Heart

Runaways: A Writer's Dilemma

My Pet Serial Killer