The Book of Bunk: A Fairy Tale of the Federal Writers' Project (Earthling)

Glen Hirshberg (The Snowman's Children) will read and sign his new novel, The Book of Bunk.

"[A] lyrical meditation on the sustaining power of the imagination. . . . This vivid re-creation of smalltown Depression-era America enchants with its well-drawn characters, eloquent repartee, and poignant fantasia on a social experiment, which, if it didn’t play out this way, should have." --Publishers Weekly

"This brilliant and moving novel about family, betrayal, imagination, love and identity establishes Glen Hirshberg among our most profound and necessary writers — a novelist of the old school, a master." --Peter Straub

Lucius Shepard calls Glen Hirshberg's new novel, The Book of Bunk: A Fairy Tale of the Federal Writers’ Project (Earthling, 2010), "a miracle of narrative diversity and drive... It's as if Woody Guthrie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez had co-authored a 90,000-word folk song." His previous novel, The Snowman's Children (Carroll & Graf, 2002), received similarly enthusiastic endorsements from Kelly Link, Stewart O'Nan, and Steve Erickson, amongst others, along with rave reviews from The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and many more.  Each of his story collections, American Morons (Earthling, 2006) and The Two Sams (Carroll & Graf, 2003) received the International Horror Guild Award  and was selected by Locus as a best book of the year. He won the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for his novella, “The Janus Tree.” With Dennis Etchison and Peter Atkins, he co-founded the Rolling Darkness Revue, a traveling ghost story performance troupe. He teaches writing and the teaching of writing at Cal State San Bernardino.