A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to Return to the son he left behind.
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His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, London Review of Books, The Baffler, and Conjunctions. com).
In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project (dorothyproject.
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He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St.
About the Author: Martin Riker grew up in Central Pennsylvania.
This is his first novel.
His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, London Review of Books, the Baffler, and Conjunctions.
In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project.
Louis.
He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St.
Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania.
A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker\'s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world.
Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel\'s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own.
A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to Return to the son he left behind
