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Midwestern Pulp: A Love Letter to Lake Erie
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 3 2022
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Debut Novel from Mic Fox and Fort Famly
The framework and functionality of the modern [male] millennial appears to be based entirely upon narrative. There is no better example of this than in the cumbersome, non-coastal interior of the United States, where without the cultural distractions of a coastal city or the cultural heritage that comes with living somewhere that seasons its food, a Midwesterner can act and react to life's simple variables as they come and go. This pace of living creates a divide where one either submits to the mundaneness of the environment in the basement of their mother's home or corrals with others, forming a group of comrades that builds a micro-culture unto their own.Review
Midwestern Pulp is a triumph-a reflection, celebration, and indictment of the midwestern ethos. Fox's wry humor follows in the footsteps of John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces and Don DeLillo's White Noise in holding a mirror, however darkly, to banal cultural touchstones, teasing out the beautiful strangeness of existence. He takes on the almost Sisyphean task of peering through the normal in search of the sublime. It's a neon-tinged novel calling out from the cultural wilderness of northern Ohio, forcing you to reckon with your own biases and wonder if it was you who missed the point and if you've been thinking about home incorrectly all along.
-Will C. Farley, Author of Big Fish, Or Some Such Nonsense, willcfarley.com
...Mic Fox sculpts a tensile, living ecosystem, a nebula of collective resilience, profoundly nonsensical ingenuity, and the aporetic relationship between cultural survivalism, nostalgic reverie, and the persistence of the Platonic ideal of homeplace-the Derridean at home. Therein he lays bare a rich tapestry of straight-up cinematic diegesis and ethnographic fiction truer-than-life because it's totally made up. As trite as that sounds, it slaps...with heart.
-Tim Woods, Your Bartender's Bartender, Chief Juice Wrangler at Gästkellerei Wines
Feels like the first bite of Joan Vanderhyden's hot dish in the church basement.
-Ian Bush, Vibe Curator at Banshees Ritual
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