A is for Everyone

A is for EveryoneA Is for Everyone subverts the children's alphabet book format. Every letter routes back to "A," and inside that frame Dennis Vanderspek layers surreal parables, anthropomorphic fables, prose poem meditations, and deadpan comedy: a sequence of short pieces that read together as a single form rather than a glossary. Pell's citation reads it as Edson like: plainspoken prose poems whose internal logic skews. A Is for Everyone won the 2021 Kenneth Patchen

A last one dreams of turning into a rat to hide in a wall once his parents are gone

You Are Make Very Important Bathtime is David Moscovich's flash-fiction novel and an anthropology of self-exoticism: a celebration of cultural misunderstanding set in Southern Japan

Patrick Keller's breadth of vision is simply astonishing

so the issue count runs ahead of the physical book count)

Hilarious semantic sport

assembled the way JEF has built its single-author tributes since Raymond Federman proposed an entire issue devoted to his own work

gathering parody

play with it

issued by JEF as Journal of Experimental Fiction 49 in 2012

so that finishing the book means becoming its co-author

Tarnawsky described his method to The Collidescope in 2022: "Writing for me is akin to proving a theorem

and for the rare success of a comic novel that is also a tragedy