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A Reader's Guide to Brock Clarke

Author Brock Clarke has said that plumbing is as noble a career as writing fiction. That’s a fresh perspective, and one you’ll seldom hear from the literati or the bastions of higher education. What that means to you and me is that Clarke understands, recognizes and experiences the same struggles we all do in the day-to-day—making relationships work, understanding family, wrestling with the realities and falsehoods of our own self-image. By extension, so does Sam Pulsifer, the protagonist of Clarke’s newly published novel, An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England. What makes the two different is that Sam is a bumbler, whose ineptitude affords us not only the chance to laugh at him loudly and often, but also to watch as he tries to piece together and understand what is essentially the human condition. The result is a book that is both thought provoking and highly entertaining.



A Result of Chaos & Luck

yt communication is a press run by Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk out of the Hackney borough in London. Similar to most small presses it operates within a small geographic sphere, but they also operate with an aggressive stance against assumed norms of the publishing world.





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