Hooray! JIM Gauer's Novel Explosives has been reissued by its publisher-- it deserves every bit of the high praise that Joy Williams lavishes on it in the review below. If you have time only to read the review and not Gauer's novel, so be it, you'll be the better off for it either way (although you'll thank yourself for diving fully in on this one, trust me).

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Review: Joy Williams on Jim Gauer
https://open.substack.com/pub/books/p/review-joy-williams-on-jim-gauer?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

This review by Joy Williams of Jim Gauer's novel Novel Explosives is spot-on: it's an astoundingly good book that should be on your radar but almost certainly is not. It's extremely playful and dead serious at the same time. The amnesiac narrator thinks he's a heteronym of Fernando Pessoa's, since that's what his ID tells him. Let Williams explain it better than I have the space to here.

https://books.substack.com/p/review-joy-williams-on-jim-gauer

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