Bøger af Timmy Reed

In the early 2000's, we find our hero - Mathias Canopy (aka Peter Batton), the host of a scandalous reality game show called $ell Your $oul - feeling lost amid tabloid rumors, contract renegotiations, staged love affairs, a new name, a new face, escort services, camera crews, loved ones, blood loss and diarrhea. When he comes back home to Baltimore he rediscovers his family, who rediscover their prodigal son and sibling in the meantime. Every now and then, you have to $ell Your $oul to get a new one...or not.

"Reminiscent of Shane Jones and Kevin Brockmeier, but with a style all its own, Timmy Reed's The Ghosts That Surrounded Them is a history of the unseen world, a beautifully written surreal meditation on life and death, the distances that surround us all, and the beauty of life. Reed is a real talent. I devoured this book in a single sitting, and it stayed with me like few others." -CL Bledsoe, author of Man of Clay 'Timmy Reed, in the vein of Matt Bell and Blake Butler, is the literary world's next exciting wordsmith, but it is the tender care of his subjects--fragile, human ones--for which he will really be remembered." -Jen Michalski, author of The Tide King and Could You Be With Her Now "Timmy Reed has a strange and wonderful imagination, one of the results of which is the beautifully haunted world of The Ghosts That Surrounded Them, a short novel that reads like a fake handbook of the world with a particular emphasis on the fascinatinghistory of ghosts and reminds the reader of the inescapable tragedy of the human condition." -Michael Kimball author of Big Ray and Dear Everybody

"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 (http: //entropymag.org/the-weird-interview-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 (http: //htmlgiant.com/reviews/25-points-tell-god-i-dont-exist/) "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." - Baltimore City Paper (Full Review: http: //citypaper.com/arts/books/book-review-em-tell-god-i-don-8217-t-exist-em-1.1532044) "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.L. Bledsoe, Prick of the Spindle (http: //www.prickofthespindle.com/index.htm) "His writing includes bizarre otherworldy situations taking place on earth; apocalyptic atmospheres where subtle tenderness exists; our new technology juxtaposed against things more primitive; surreal images in mundane costumes. His terse sentences hauntingly make you laugh." - Matthew Sherling, Cutty Spot (http: //cuttyspot.tumblr.com/post/71531951056/some-of-my-favorite-media-i-can-remember) "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: http: //beachsloth.blogspot.com/2013/04/tell-god-i-dont-exist-by-timmy-reed.html) "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: http: //monologging.org/?p=1431)

"No one writes like Timmy Reed; he has a haunting, unique voice that sticks hard and fast in your head. Miraculous Fauna is freaky in the very best way. You'll glide straight through to the tender and enchanting end." -Jessica Anya Blau, author of The WonderBread Summer and Drinking Closer to Home "Miraculous Fauna is nothing less than a miracle of a novel: beautifully strange and richly moving. Timmy Reed continues to create worlds that I long to get lost in, and this novel is no exception. Start reading, and soon you'll want to get lost in Miraculous Fauna too." - Laura van den Berg, author of Isle of Youth and Find Me "Timmy Reed's sense of detail and description astounds me and makes me jealous, that he threads so much of that through this Miraculous Fauna is nothing short of, well, miraculous. Baby Rachel is a beautiful monster and the novel is full of great compassion. Miraculous Fauna is one of the most fantastic and one of the most fucked up novels I've read in years." - Michael Kimball, author of Big Ray, Us and Dear Everybody