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5 unusual facts about Brian Evenson


Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing

In addition, it provides more than 40 interviews with such innovative authors as Robert Coover, Lydia Davis, Brian Evenson, Shelley Jackson, Ben Marcus, Carole Maso, and Scott McCloud.

Brian Evenson

For example, the main character of The Open Curtain (2006) becomes preoccupied with a murder committed in the early 1900s by William Hooper Young, a grandson of 19th century Mormon leader Brigham Young, while Immobility (2012) takes place in a post-apocalyptic Utah and features some esoteric elements of LDS theology.

Christophe Claro

One of his novels, Electric Flesh (Chair électrique in French), was translated in English and published in the United States in 2006 (translation by Brian Evenson).

Evenson

Brian Evenson (born 1966), American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction

William Hooper Young

In Brian Evenson's 2006 novel, The Open Curtain, the protagonist is a disaffected Mormon teenager who obsessively researches Young's involvement in Pulitzer's murder.


Coffee House Press

Other award-winning Coffee House Press authors include Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Frank Chin, Kao Kalia Yang, Laird Hunt, and Brian Evenson.

Underland Press

Debut authors for Underland Press included: Bram Stoker Award winner Kealan Patrick Burke, Edgar Award and International Horror Guild Award nominee Brian Evenson, Two-time World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer, multiple award winner Will Elliott, and husband and wife writing team Berry Verhoef and Esther Verhoef writing as "EScoBER".


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