"The six long stories in Stephen-Paul Martin's outstanding CHANGING THE SUBJECT subtly challenge the conventions of the short story through seemingly simple prose that, in strange often hilarious digressions, knots in a fascinating, surreal, and masterful collection... CHANGING THE SUBJECT is a brilliant book..."
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"In this exceedingly clever and mesmerizing collection, Martin guides us through six long stories that each contain numerous other stories, and are themselves also one long, strange fiction... Charmed from the very first sentence, I read this book straight through in a single night, and then reread it as soon as I could. How marvelous to see the story so thoroughly reinvented and reinvigorated! Changing the Subject is so far by far my favorite new book of 2010."Read the rest of the review here:
Changing the Subject doesn’t live up to its title, it consumes it. Though the stories make high use of syntactical or symbolic repetitions, they are also powerfully digressive, hallucinatory.Buy CHANGING THE SUBJECT here.
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"If his new short story collection Changing the Subject has an ambitious title, Stephen-Paul Martin gets away with it. And it’s not only because of his change-ups between eco-terrorism, women with nice teeth, dogs, Macbeth, various assassinations of President Bush, and animated billboards depicting Custer taking Tylenol before his last stand."Read the rest at http://www.kgbbar.com/lit/book_reviews/changing_the_subject
Midwest Book Review says CHANGING THE SUBJECT is "a fascinating read that will certainly prove difficult to put down, highly recommended." Order today!
"Stephen-Paul Martin's latest work, Changing the Subject, reaffirms my belief that he is the American master of the short story. Although I've often compared his work to Borges and Calvino, to try to give readers unfamiliar with his work a frame of reference, Martin's style and vision are entirely and uniquely his own... Martin takes the deep, the difficult, the absurd and the ridiculous and synthesizes them into eminently readable entities that challenge our assumptions about the reality of the world we inhabit."
"As usual, these Martin stories are hilarious, philosophically rich, absorbing, and just plain fun... Martin is developing the ability to make his philosophically complex stories more and more accessible (and that's a compliment)... He is at the forefront of American storytellers."
Publication date: 10/10/10.
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