Daniel Grandbois

Daniel Grandbois is the author of several books, including "Unlucky Lucky Days" and "A Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy".

"These are works of surpassing literary merit... some of the most inventive, restless and creative fiction I have read in the last five years. [They] sustain contemporary American fiction, even rehabilitate it, and to have all these works in one place for readers of the future is to do a good thing for all who care about the condition of prose writing in North America." -RICK MOODY

"These are funny, bizarre, moving stories--a pleasure to read." -LYDIA DAVIS

"Reading [Unlucky Lucky Tales], I think of the great jazz improvisers or Angela Hewitt's version of Bach's "Goldberg Variations." Here is a plenitude, a world of effects and inventions, from a fine and mentally agile writer... This is a book of imagination's plenty. Ultimately, it is a book of wonder and delight. -ED OCHESTER

"Perhaps Daniel Grandbois is the love child of Rod Serling, HP Lovecraft, and Russell Edson. His prose poems hybridize shards of folk tale, sci fi, wacky animism, derailed creation myths, and surreal apocalypse... Kiss conventional reality goodbye and prepare to have your brain rearranged, to enter a realm in which scintillating, nonstop invention is god." -AMY GERSTLER

“Imagine, as Daniel Grandbois has, a conflation of Marxes (Karl and Groucho) and a hipster Plato, and you can begin to understand the enterprise of reimagining the history of Western philosophy as a series of comic summaries, complete with abstracts for the novice and infused with a storyteller’s sense of the need to entertain, while shedding light on the great intellectual enterprises from ancient to modern times. This book is a marvel.” —CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY

"Animated by a wonderfully droll and fantastical imagination, these little stories are delicious." -RIKKI DUCORNET

"One is tempted to look for precedents to his odd surrealism and verbal pranks, but it's clear Grandbois has staked out his own territory, one peopled with offbeat characters and varied discourses... The wise fool, an old conceit of literature, resurfaces, and he is of course Grandbois himself." -PETER JOHNSON

"Grandbois is a master of the double-edged word, of stories that both cut through the world like butter and double-back to saw themselves to bits." -BRIAN EVENSON

"Singularly original and captivating... an important work of fiction that should transform what notions of fiction may currently exist." -LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ

"[A] modern space-time set of interconnected myths and stories... startling sets of shape shiftings and melting tableaus... elegantly precise... graceful... a work of art." -ED SANDERS

"[A] collage of satire and slapstick, allegory and hallucination... an 'art novel' in the fullest sense." -MARGUERITE FEITLOWITZ

"A celebration of language in its purest form, exactly what poetry itself was supposed to be."-BEST EXPERIMENTAL BOOK Listing 2008, CCLaP (Chicago Center for Literature & Photography)

"In a folklore-like fugue that resembles a darkly humorous Jorge Luis Borges or Italo Calvino, Grandbois... use[s] everything from animals to sentient pieces of paper to illustrate metaphysically dizzying truths about the world." -THE ONION

"Grandbois's stories are tiny and explosive, like a violent series of sneezes... This is avant-garde stand-up, right down to the punch lines flashing and fritzing like short-circuited bulbs at the end of his paragraphs." -JACKET MAGAZINE

"In his debut assortment of fabulist flash fiction, Grandbois delights us in small, with his chiseled prismatic shards." -RAIN TAXI

"A report from another world... [W]e are reminded of why we read fiction in the first place: to gain access to the wonderful peculiarities of the author's mind." -JEFF VANDERMEER (Amazon Daily Blog)

"A must read for anyone who cares about the future of American Literature." -DOUG MARTIN

"Daniel Grandbois's trembling leaflets bring to life all the rejecta and detritus scattered in such silent and secretive array around us, recovering all we thought lost or dead." -ELENI SIKELIANOS