Of Time and Trouble

Biblioasis $19.95 These three authors offer meditative, disturbing, sublime, and self-aware visions, resituating writing within its larger sociocultural context while sharing perceptions on literary predecessors, engaging with small presses, reconsidering effects of substance abuse, and while deploying disjunctive stylistics depicting socio-political discord replete with psychic rupture.The title story features a rural southern US town with hucksters peddling surplus U-boats, theories on the Lindbergh kidnapping, a burning car on the edge of town (occupants living or dead), bored gossiping locals, pool sharks, beautiful self-indulgent women, and "crazy" people exchanging clashing opinions: "But if that buggy wasn't Grey's, you can boil me in your onion soup like you would a housefly."Set in Chiapas, and rich in hyperbole, satire, fabulation, narrative disjunction, stream of consciousness, eroticism, injustice, and political-economic intrigue, this open-ended novella features mescal-bibbing rascals, a musical ensemble of blind female sex workers, a possibly incestuous relationship between two lovers divided by intense familial rivalry, lighting supplied by electric eels, hacked bodies mystically coming back to life, and strife between the gods of Yes and No set against a backdrop of war and guerrilla resistance.