ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | The Guild of Saint Cooper by Shya Scanlon

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The Guild of Saint Cooper by Shya Scanlon

Shya Scanlon’s The Guild of St. Cooper is about an obscure author in a near-future post-evacuation Seattle who is drawn into writing a revisionist history that sets the book itself unspooling backward into its own alternate history and into a world—featuring giant rhododendrons, space aliens, and a certain Special Agent Dale Cooper—increasingly both familiar and unrecognizable.

 

Blurbs

“Just when I thought I’d had my fill of dystopian novels, along comes the The Guild of Saint Cooper; a playful, imaginative, and wildly unpredictable ride through alternate Seattle. Scanlon delights in turning history on its ear in this daring and thoughtful high wire act of a novel.” —Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here and The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

Praise for Border Run:
“Like a Philip K. Dick of the American Southwest, or a futuristic Cormac McCarthy.” —Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nightttime and Some for the Day

“Strikes a flawless balance between satire and heart, adventure adn meditation.” —Laura Van Den Berg, author The Isle of Youth

 

Publisher Information

  • Paperback: 350 pages
  • Publisher: Dzanc Books (May 12, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1936873613
  • ISBN-13: 978-1936873616
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Shya

Shya Scanlon is the author of the novels Forecast and Border Run, and of the poetry collection In This Alone Impulse. He received his MFA from Brown University, and lives in Manhattan and Bearsville, New York, with his wife.

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Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.