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Scorch launches to big words! |
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Written by zach
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 |
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Well, it only came out yesterday, but already people are crawling all over themselves for Scorch Atlas. Check out the kind words that are filling up the internet:
"Butler is an original force who is fearless with form... The design is appropriately disarming, an apt part of the overall barrage by this inventive and deeply promising young author." —Time Out New York
"Scorch Atlas doesn't make its point with narrative arc or character development or paragraphs or even the lovely, terrible sentences. Instead, it's the heaping of words — mauled bubbled clods knotted clogged rot foam mold growth cragged bugged curdle boils lumps ooze gunk stung and on and on — that press on you, as if you were being buried, drowned, dissolved, as if you were about to swallow your tongue." —The Boston Phoenix
"Scorch Atlas is a fine example of experiment with purpose, of world building, of decadent, detailed and innovative writing. This is a book that should be read, and widely." —Pank Magazine
"Blake Butler has been doing great work... I've been looking around at people who publish smaller more personal books, things outside the mainstream, and totally original. Blake's one of these people. " —Three Guys One Book
"Butler excels at forcing the familiar through the a sieve of strange until it is stripped clean of its everyday banality, until it is once again made so fresh you can smell the decay it contains, until you can taste the despair that threatens to destroy not just his characters but also the dangerous worlds they inhabit." —Matt Bell
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Keep your eye here for the results of the Scorch Atlas remix contest!
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