Permanent Exhibit - Matthew Vollmer

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Résumé :
Matthew Volmer fuses the insight of extended meditation with the immediacy of social media in his new collection Permanent Exhibit. These collage-style essays experiment with stream-of-conscious musings as Vollmer opens a browser window into his own mind: letting his thoughts wander through a fast-forward montage of flying snakes, mass shootings, emojis, pop stars, stargazing, ghosts, circuses, and a hundred other things. Full of keen observations and unexpected insights, Permanent Exhibit reclaims the art of letting one's mind wander in the age of the status update....

Biographie:
Matthew Vollmer was born in Asheville, North Carolina and grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is the author of two collections of short fiction-Gateway to Paradise (Persea, 2015) and Future Missionaries of America (MacAdam/Cage, 2009...

Sommaire:
Status Update Hatchling Last Blood Robocall Can't Feel My Face 33rd Balloon Fool's Gold Top Secret Holy Hours Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera Well of Souls Out of Lives Land of Enchantment Note for the Annual Report Signs of the Times Stay Woke Trick-or-Treat Night Thoughts Hands Up Sinkhole Spoiler Alert Observatorium Precious Metals Permanent Exhibit Treasure Box Blood Soup Stormbox Gong Bang Cleanse Brain Bank Game Day Eye of the Storm Source Material Cult Hymn The Subordinate Fragment We All Go into the Dark Black Magic Inferno Fat Kid Heron The New You Liftoff...