Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past - toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields...

The protagonist-narrator of The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part returns to find an answer the question: how does a writer remember? In particular, how does a he―a writer who no longer writes but can’t stop reading and rereading himself―remember. -from Amazon.

Hundreds of dreams - intense, vivid, visionary - form the spiraling core of this unique and haunting journey into perception. It explores and embodies Burroughs's provocative ideas on writing, painting, consciousness, and creativity.

"Esta colleción de ficciones, ensayos y crónicas puede entenderse como una fervorosa defensa de la creación literaria"--Page 4 of cover. This collection of fiction, essays and articles can be understood as a fervent defense of literary creation, or as a call to disobey the rules of the game, or as the result of an obsessive (and compulsive) reflection around words. In the eleven pieces gathered here we fully recognize the very personal voice of...

"In 1967, the dancer Marta Becket and her husband were traveling through Death Valley Junction when they came across an abandoned theater. Marta decided it was hers. She painted her ideal audience on its walls and danced her own dances until her death five decades later. In the present day, Gia has ended a relationship and taken a leave from her job in film studies at a university. She is sleeping fifteen hours a night and ignoring calls from her...

Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of feminine sophistication and spontaneity and she has an uncanny knack of always saying the right thing. Unusually intuitive, L. senses Delphine's vulnerability and slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life....