Metrophilias
“Off beat, compelling, intricate: an urban jigsaw puzzle.” — Ben Peek, author of Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth
“With delicate minimalism and poignant specificity, Metrophilias demonstrates the human contagions that come with our increasingly urban life. When they get around to mapping the literary sky of the 21st century, I'm betting that Brendan Connell's star will shine very brightly, indeed.” — Lucius Shepard, author of Life During Wartime
“Every generation throws up a few genuine Masters of the Weird. There simply is no hyperbole in the statement that Brendan Connell is a member of this elite group right now, perhaps the most accomplished of them all.” — Rhys Hughes, author of A New Universal History of Infamy
Thirty-six cities. Thirty-six stories of obsession. From ancient Thebes to present day Berlin, these little portraits of humans superimposed on their suburban environment are corroding treats thrown together in a past-modern beaker, landmark tales of love in the metropolis. A round-the-world tour of craving and decadence.
Contents:
- Athens
- Barcelona
- Benares
- Berlin
- Carthage
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Florence
- Gwangju
- Havana
- Istanbul
- Jerusalem
- Kiev
- Kinshasa
- London
- Luxembourg
- Manila
- Mexico City
- Moscow
- New York
- Oslo
- Paris
- Peking
- Quito
- Rome
- Seville
- Sybaris
- Sydney
- Thebes
- Tokyo
- Uberlândia
- Vancouver
- Warsaw
- Xi'an
- Yerevan
- Zürich
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Brendan Connell
Brendan Connell was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1970. He has had fiction published in numerous places, including McSweeney's, Adbusters, and the World Fantasy Award winning anthologies Leviathan 3 (The Ministry of Whimsy 2002), and Strange Tales (Tartarus Press 2003). His published books are: The Translation of Father Torturo (Prime Books, 2005), Dr. Black and the Guerrillia (Grafitisk Press, 2005), Metrophilias (Better Non Sequitur, 2010), Unpleasant Tales (Eibonvale Press, 2010), The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children (Chômu Press, 2011), The Architect (PS Publishing, 2012), Lives of Notorious Cooks (Chômu Press, 2012), Miss Homicide Plays the Flute (Eibonvale Press, 2013), The Cutest Girl in Class (co-written with Quentin S. Crisp and Justin Isis, Snuggly Books, 2013), The Galaxy Club (Chômu Press, 2014), The Metanatural Adventures of Dr. Black (PS Publishing, 2014), Cannibals of West Papua (Zagava, 2015), Jottings from a Far Away Place (Snuggly Books, 2015), Clark (Snuggly Books, 2016), The Heel (Snuggly Books, 2017) and Pleasant Tales (Eibonvale Press, 2017).
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