Calamari Press is pleased to announced the release of The Revisionist by Miranda Mellis.

 

The title character of Miranda Mellis' The Revisionist conducts covert surveillance on a Saunders-esque city whose inhabitants are subject to uncanny transformations as a result of catastrophic weather, political corruption, invasive technologies and environmental degradation. Hired to spin, or 'revise,' the facts, the revisionist's perceptions in turn become detached and distorted--inevitably unreliable yet all the same, revealing. This civil scientist of a narrator sardonically observes a distressed landscape inhabited by mutant children, a seeing-eye dog, a centenarian with iguanas and constellations beneath her dress, brooding frigate birds, insurance love clones, a terrorist curator, a private investigator, and a little girl who's discovered the world's largest conch.

 

For more blurbs, images from the book, etc., click here. Upcoming readings for Miranda:

In other Calamari news, Robert Lopez' novel, Part of the World will be available very soon, and he will be reading:

If you are in NYC tomorrow night (1/26 ), Norman Lock will be at KGB Bar. And on 2/1 Peter Markus will be reading at Southpaw in Bklyn. Check the site for additional info.

 

And lastly, last call for Sleepingfish submissions! We will be reading for the next issue until Feb. 15. We are especially light on art, text/image and hybrid works that fuse texts and art. Guidelines on the site.