Book Tell God I Don't existing
Timmy Reed is a writer and teacher from Balti Maryland He is the author of Tell God I Dont Exist The Ghosts That Surrounded Them Miraculous Fauna Star Backwards and IRL as well as a couple of chapbooks Stray Pest and Zeb And Bunny Build Russian Dolls He has been featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 on multiple occasions and won a 2015 Baker Artist Awards B Grant Learn here site_link Timmy Reed is a writer and teacher from Balti Maryland He is the author of Tell God I Don t Exist The Ghosts That Surrounded Them Miraculous Fauna Star Backwards and IRL as well as a couple of chapbooks Stray Pest and Zeb And Bunny Build Russian Dolls He has been featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 on multiple occasions and won a 2015 Baker Artist Awards B Grant Learn here site_link site_link Tell God I Don t Exist is a collection of short stories by a local Balti author Timmy Reed The stories have a poetic feel to them and Timmy is an extremely talented writer I love reading books with collections of short stories since they are a quick read and you can bounce around in them and go back to the ones you really enjoyed If you are a short story reader you will love this book Tell God I Don t Exist I really enjoyed these short stories The author s creativity and artistic voice made this an easy and pleasurable read Glad to have come across this local writer s work Tell God I Don t Exist Timmy Reed s imagination invites the reader to look at their world a little differently Each of these stories are rather short but charming and interesting Tell God I Don t Exist I m not sure what genre writers like Sam Pink and Timmy Reed are operating within but there s this element of magical realism in Tell God I Don t Exist that does by lending a sense of palpable terror to the prose There is something new and exciting going on in American literature and this collection rambles along with the rest of the zeitgeist Reed s stories can be a little cute sometimes but this is a solid and hilarious read that often borders on beautiful Tell God I Don t Exist
Timmy Reed s stories are so strange and so funny that it s impossible to stop reading them There is a great imagination at work in Tell God I Don t Exist and I m grateful to have been a witness to it Michael Kimball author of Big Ray and Dear Everybody If George Saunders and Russell Edson had a baby he d probably grow up to write like Timmy Reed These stories are beautifully haunting surprisingly bizarre and wonderfully imaginative It is a joy to read such fresh and mind bending prose Jessica Anya Blau author of Drinking Closer to Home and The Summer of Naked Swim Parties Timmy Reed s Tell God I Don t Exist announces a wildly gifted new voice These stories are at once intimate and vast full of beauty and strangeness and grit and heartbreak A luminous debut Laura van den Berg author of What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us I think it s amazing Scott McClanahan In a world of posturing and worrying about public perception it s liberating to let loose and give in to the ecstatic joy that characterizes Reed s oeuvre Quincy Rhoads HTML Giant If you come to this book with expectations of what a short story should be prepare to have them pleasantly if fleetingly defied If you go in with no expectations then congratulations you may be one of the few people who don t need art like this Balti City Paper Full Review Really Reed s characters are just looking for beauty just like anybody else The irony of course is that they often experience a beauty we would find enthralling if we were in their situations This is part of the point he s making I think that there s beauty in our own lives that we miss for various reasons But we should pay attention There s a beauty in all life and there s beauty in connection C.
Kindle Tell God I Don't existential L Bledsoe Prick of the Spindle His writing includes bizarre otherworldy situations taking place on earth apocalyptic atmospheres where subtle tenderness exists our new technology juxtaposed against things primitive surreal images in mundane costumes His terse sentences hauntingly make you laugh Matthew Sherling Cutty Spot If Aesop s Fables every decided to get weird really weird they d look a lot like Tell God I Don t Exist Beach Sloth Full Review The prose itself is refreshingly unique The sentences layer themselves into often unexpected situations expressing themselves with a clarity that never makes you feel lost despite the rabbit holes or perhaps mole tunnels that they often lead you through The experiences in each feel tangible despite the dream like way in which they often unfold Rachel Wooley Monologging Full Review Tell God I Don t Exist.
