![]() There's oxygen starvation ("The Dust"), drugs ("The Moans"), dystopia ("A Report"), the distortion of the open road ("Past Reno"), head injuries, too. Many of the stories are surreal and deeply unreliable a veritable encyclopedia of all the ways the human animal might be incapable of a firm grasp on its experience. ![]() The second element is a story, a horrible story that one man is trying to tell the other.Įvenson is deeply interested in narratives that slide around like the interior workings of a labyrinth, where walls are doors and doors disappear and hallways might be there, or not. In "The Blood Drip," it's part of a campfire tale as two men - one of them probably dead, one of them maybe alive - confront each other after a conflict drives both of them into the woods. In Western-genre-infused "Black Bark," this image exists in real life - or as real as life gets in Evenson's stories - as two men flee aggressors on horseback into a surreal, shifting landscape. The first is an image: a man's gunshot leg leaving a bloody swath across the flank of a horse. The stories that bookend Brian Evenson's newest collection, A Collapse of Horses, are connected by two unsettling elements. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Collapse of Horses Author Brian Evenson ![]()
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