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As someone who has long been fascinated by space and line-break in prose, I greatly admire the remarkable music and architecture of Dave Brennan's compositions. He writes beautifully and vividly, and there are scenes in this book that I will never forget. Brennan is an exciting and important new writer!

             Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will

 

Dave Brennan pressure treats language, syntax, grammar, content into a layered labyrinthine quilted fabric of strata. One doesn’t so much as read as one peels, strips, skins the text—a sonic archaeology, a narrative dig.

             Michael Martone

 

Brennan is alive to the glories of surfeit, but also aware of our irritable need to catalog and categorize. As we read we are whisked past all manner of visions, from which sparks of music and wit burst at every turn.

            Joel Brouwer

 

[...] opened my eyes to this notion that had been hiding in my head, that a lot of the music we vaguely hear about (and which may seem utterly inaccessible), it just might be amazing if given a chance.

             DJ Glad Rappa