Check out this interview with Brielle Brilliant, author of our fall 2018 release,The Spud. Brielle stopped by WHPK’s The Chicago Word to discuss prank phone calls, network theory, and gun politics.
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“Through the infinite layers of experience, Brilliant grabs the reader by our shoulders.”
Read an interview with Brielle Brilliant in Hooligan Mag
“The writing zips between inner memory and outer world with such speed that the boundary between the two begins to melt away … To read The Spud is to find yourself at the center of a constellation of possibilities rather facing down a single hard, cool reality … Brilliant is masterful at conjuring this experience, playing and tinkering with the point at which narrative breaks down into naked, exposed words without ever letting them dissolve into chaos.”
Read a review of The Spud in Cleveland Review of Books
“Startling and haunting, an unforgettable debut.”
Check out Brielle Brilliant’s notes & music playlist for The Spud on Largehearted Boy
In celebration of her novel, The Spud, debuting on November 6, Brielle Brilliant will be doing a reading/performance tour this fall…
KP is the brother of a mass shooter. JD is the shooter's number 1 fan. The pair drives through rural Idaho, the physical and psychological landmarks of the violence imposing themselves on the characters and the reader.
The Spud is a puzzle: thinking/watching/living a movie rerun…
The book is timely, given the terrible frequency of mass shootings in this country. And its structure reflects the complex nature of the topics it covers, using an internal logic that only reveals itself the deeper you get into it.
While its content is most similar to A Clockwork Orange, Sartre's Nausea, or the work of Cormac McCarthy, its form has more in common with indie films like Badlands and Deleuze's philosophies on cinema. Fans of films such as Gus Van Sant’s Elephant and Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers are gonna love it.
“I can’t think of another writer like Brielle Brilliant right now. She’s doing something really unforgettable with language and narrative and memory and time.”
The Spud will be IN STORES EVERYWHERE NOV. 6 but available direct from us very sooon! In the meantime, read an excerpt on our website and watch the teaser video below. Brielle will travel extensively to promote the book this fall—we promise these events are not to be missed!