May 13th, 2011 / 4:36 pm
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Forthcoming from Featherproof: Tim Kinsella

If you were in your teens or twenties in the 00s and like weirdy pop music, you probably will at least be like, whoa, what? to the announcement of Featherproof’s next forthcoming title: Tim Kinsella’s The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense

From what I’ve heard, this thing is as nuts as you’d expect.

Dennis Cooper says, “For all this novel’s depth of story, and that story’s grip and wealthy undercurrents, Tim Kinsella’s rushing, trippily meticulous prose is so exciting to follow that the story seems as much the novel’s soundtrack and topography as it is the point. A thorough and wildly distinctive read.”

I’m ready.

Available for preorder now.

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19 Comments

  1. Tummler

      Tim is my absolute favorite musician, and I have been eagerly awaiting the release of his novel for years now. So in other words, this is fucking awesome news. Thanks, Blake! Apparently, there is to be plenty of “dancing and showering” found in this novel.

  2. Sean

      Hell yes!

  3. Tummler
  4. Michael Filippone

      Whoa! Awesome news. Just yesterday I was wondering about Featherproof’s next title. Can’t wait.

  5. Anonymous

       tinyurl.com/297sxrk

  6. Ben Roylance

      Awesome! Will check his out. 

  7. Davey

      Um, was this book at all edited? Check out the excerpt here: http://www.monstersanddust.com/spring10/kinsella/kinsella01.html  The second sentence doesn’t even make sense: “In her ratty robe, she sits, sighs, wait for it to cool then drink it down quickly.” Basic grammar is, well, pretty basic, no? Looks like a very rough read . . .

  8. Davey

      BTW, the blurb: Dennis Cooper says, “For all this novel’s depth of story, and that
      story’s grip and wealthy undercurrents, Tim Kinsella’s rushing,
      trippily meticulous prose is so exciting to follow that the story seems
      as much the novel’s soundtrack and topography as it is the point.”

      What does that sentence even mean??

  9. Miko

       Fuck your gramma!

  10. [___]

      have you guys read that book by jim joyce, i think it’s called ‘odysseus’ or something but it’s not even about homer, anyway the whole time i was reading it, especially when his wife is thinking to herself at the end, i was like “umm wtf does this shit even mean???” couldn’t believe that a book could be published with such blatant disregard for “basic grammar,” idk must not’ve been edited whatsoever

  11. marshall

      what does all this shit even mean

  12. STaugustine

       The first really interesting new thing (so sweetly unsucky, so unmired in MFA wannabe-screenplay mode) I’ve read since The Kindly Ones. Shades of David Foster DeLillo (judging only by short excerpt, I know). Must purchase! Btw: “Grammar” (in relation to Fiction) is a road map and/or recipe book, not a fucking tablet of Mosaic Law, or a Physics Textbook… for the obvious reason that language does not radiate, unchanging, from a central point at a constant frequency as an objective, supra-social phenomenon. Visual Artists ran that bourgeois gauntlet (“Sacrebleu! His wife, he paint her with the green stripe down her face!”) a century ago; literary artists still dealing with it.

  13. deadgod

      I think Cooper “even mean[s]” that ‘the sentences are musical in such a way as to diminish one’s instinct to connect them into, or to recognize and mesh with their inner connectedness in, a narrative whole’.

      – that is, that the sentences’ music, in tiny, narratively not-yet-joined pieces, compels one – him, anyway – frequently, perhaps continuously, to ignore or neglect the concinnity in which they would be or are narratively meaningful.

      There – that’s not too hard, is it?

      I doubt this (strong) claim of words making asemic music (in, say, this particular case), but it’s not a cray zee or even especially uncommon assertion to make of a piece of literary art.

  14. jackie wang

      haha middle school flashback

  15. shaun gannon

      lol

  16. Madison Langston

       damn, abt to listen to so much joan of arc in anticipation 

  17. Anonymous

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  18. Gilesruffer

      You did not download the fresh copy…. you did not. You are a big rat and a snake with poisenous venom.

  19. Bleedingpoet420

      about time