Karen Meisner, an editor at Strange Horizons, blogs:
Ben Parzybok also wrote Couch, an amazing debut novel about three roommates who get evicted and take their couch with them on a journey that becomes a epic quest that becomes one of the most truly weird and original books I’ve read in ages.
Thanks, Karen!
And another mention: Couch is in the famed Elliot Bay Book Co.’s Book notes:
When their apartment is unexpectedly flooded, three roommates must move a couch that exerts its will upon them by becoming lighter or heavier depending on the direction they travel; a couch that is unscathed after being hit by a train; a couch that inspires strange people to offer ridiculous sums to buy it; a couch that proves seaworthy and takes them far into the ocean; a couch that demands to be carried through a Central American jungle with armies of trigger-happy bandits in hot pursuit; a couch that may be as old as the world and powerful enough to either annihilate or redeem it. -C. Sabatini
There are a lot of great books in the Fall 2008 Book Notes.
October 23, 2008 at 9:22 am
Obama!!!!!!
October 23, 2008 at 10:19 am
Hey, this is a politics-only blog. Chanting the name of Japanese villages
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUST8454820080305
doesn’t really fit in with the theme.
October 23, 2008 at 10:32 am
Bachmann!!!!