Works

Praise for the WORKS of Grant Maierhofer

"…singularly alive and wild."  — Maggie Nelson

“…dauntingly prolific and daring…” — Gari Lutz

“…if I’d read the French translation, I would be thinking of Baudelaire, his poetry and fury and contempt and his sadness and his call for a transfixing fire.” — Kevin Killian

"Elliptical, surgical, … grim, smart, funny and syntactically menacing…" — Sam Lipsyte

“Reading these beautiful shards of stories might make you feel okay for a while with your own loneliness.” – Kate Zambreno

"A New Novel in an era where there can almost no longer be a novel at all, but information." — Blake Butler

“Grant Maierhofer writes like someone who cut their teeth on jail and so should you.” — Sean Kilpatrick

“Incantatory sentences spin dizzily through a reader’s brain …carefully crafted collection, clearly in love with its literary pedigree….” – Matthew Simmons

"A luminous whirlwind of language, emotion and wit, Flamingos cuts through the lethargy and indifference of our lives and our lit with style and rage.—Jeffrey DeShelL

“Maierhofer is a relentless experimenter, someone who understands both genre and experiment sufficiently to torque the sorts of stories we think we know into truly unsettling and alarming places where, by the end of them, our skin is buzzing and we’re not sure what has happened to us.” – Brian Evenson

“Grant Maierhofer’s Works is an unsafety protocol: how to saw your way out of a head full of hells.” - Joanna Ruocco

“There's a piece of you in here. You, the real you, the sticky, sweaty one that winces when it needs to.” - Lorn

Works is a collection, but also something new: it is a conversation between Maierhofer’s early and contemporary writings that shares its title with Édouard Levé’s masterful experimental Works. It’s a volume containing many books, with new introductions and emendations to make it a definitive and expansive heir to its previous components. Flamingos, a novella, chosen by Blake Butler as one of the best books of 2016 for Vice Magazine, is the first in a cycle of books Maierhofer’s writing on modern madness. This edition is an expansion of the original, which was published by ITNA Press and features a new introduction by German Sierra. Postures, originally published as the eighth book in Publication Studio’s Fellow Travelers Series, features an introduction by Sean Kilpatrick and praise from the late Kevin Killian. Bleach is a collection of new and old stories and has received praise from Matthew Simmons and Kate Zambreno. The collection features pieces previously published in Berfrois, Terraform, 3:AM Magazine, and elsewhere. And finally, the original unpublished edition of the PX138 3100-2686 User’s Manual, first written as liner notes for Lorn’s EP The Maze to Nowhere. The manual received accolades from Tan Lin but has not been published, until now.  Due out on Bloomsday 2020. 

Featuring

Original artwork by Samuel Robertson
Layout & Design by Tyler Crumrine
Introduction to Works: Joanna Ruocco
Introduction to Postures: Sean Kilpatrick
Introduction to Flamingos: Germán Sierra
Introduction to Bleach: Brian Evenson
Introduction to PX138 3100-2686: Lorn
Afterword: David Vichnar

Praise the Works of Grant Maierhofer
“A dauntingly prolific and daring writer, Grant Maierhofer tears his way through the terra firma of received language to roiling realms that writers rarely reach. Bleach will seep into your brainpan and give it the stinging deep-cleanse you know it needs.” — Gari Lutz  

“X, a young Midwestern novelist of uncertain talent, attends a Chicago-based writing program and relapses, after a few years of relative, Celexa-fueled relief from depression and self-harm. Though his world grows dark and cold, and he moves away from society with the unerring sincerity of the pilgrim, we never lose faith in X, due to Maierhofer’s impressive storytelling. He’s good both at the level of detail (and sentence), and in the larger picture (and for what might still be called “plot,” even in a novel so postmodern and affectless). Postures establishes itself early on as a guide to young America, but if I’d read the French translation, I would be thinking of Baudelaire, his poetry and fury and contempt and his sadness and his call for a transfixing fire.” — Kevin Killian, author of Spreadeagle

"A New Novel in an era where there can almost no longer be a novel at all, but information." — Blake Butler, author of 300,000,000

"Part Beckett, part Unabomber manifesto, part Laurie Weeks, Grant Maierhofer's Flamingos is singularly alive and wild."  — Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

"Elliptical, surgical, Flamingos is also grim, smart, funny and syntactically menacing…" — Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

"A luminous whirlwind of language, emotion and wit, Flamingos cuts through the lethargy and indifference of our lives and our lit with style and rage. This writing is a blast!" — Jeffrey DeShell, author of In Heaven Everything is Fine and Arthouse

"While I was reading Grant Maierhofer's collection of fragments, names kept floating up, some ecstatically invoked in the stories, others kindred ghosts-Daniil Kharms’s Today I Wrote Nothing, Robert Walser, Shulamith Firestone's Airless Spaces, Renata Adler's Speedboat, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. I felt such connection to these portraits of Midwestern stuckness, where characters cling to art as a way out of and a way into bewilderment and despair. Reading these beautiful shards of stories might make you feel okay for a while with your own loneliness.” – Kate Zambreno, author of Heroines and Green Girl

“The stories in Marcel present an upper Midwest of bright young outsiders, humming and pulsing with anxiety, and in deep conversation with art, music, and literature. Incantatory sentences spin dizzily through a reader’s brain, and practically cause the breath to freeze in the sharp, summoned Wisconsin air. It’s a carefully crafted collection, clearly in love with its literary pedigree, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.” – Matthew Simmons, author of Happy Rock

“Grant Maierhofer writes like someone who cut their teeth on jail and so should you.” – Sean Kilpatrick, author of Fuckscapes and Gil the Nihilist

ISBN: 978-1-948687-34-8 (ebook)

ISBN: 978-1-948687-21-8 (paperback)