Scott Snyder\'s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped.
He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York..
About the Author: Scott Snyder has been published in Zoetrope , One Story , Tin House , Epoch , and other journals.
Dark, funny, powerful, this debut collection underscores the remarkable gifts of a fiercely original young writer.
But in Snyder\'s wondrous imagination there\'s a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing: the unlikely affair between a famous actress--in hiding after surgery--and a sporting goods salesman takes an ominous turn just as she begins to heal; an engaged couple\'s relationship is fractured when one of them becomes obsessed with an inmate at the women\'s prison next door.
Scott Snyder\'s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped
