Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge)
by Emanuel Kessler
66 pages. Tape-bound.
Book design: Nathan Grant Ashcroft
Cover image: F (detail) by Karl Meinhardt. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 57″, 1998. Courtesy of the artist and {CTS} Creative Thriftshop.
A man performs the role of the Sun in a bit of modern choreography, and a young ballerina ruins a dinner party with one violent sneeze. A painter paints paintings of walls and hires a painter to paint onto a wall. Some lifestories get rejected. Some stalkers get stalked. Here, for you: twelve stories, to be read as they were written—on the bridge, in the tunnel, in the bus, on the train.
About the Author
Emanuel Kessler was born in New Jersey in 1980. He is the author of two collections of short fiction: The Quorum and Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed, and two novels: Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto and A Heaven of Others. Another novel, Witz, will be published in 2010. Kessler lives in Brooklyn, NY, and can be found online at www.emanuelkessler.org.
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