Ken Sparling

• May-1996
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From Ken Sparling’s intro: “When someone asked me what Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall was about, it felt like I’d seen a beautiful tree and struggled to describe it to someone, only to have that someone say: ‘Yes, but what is the t...

• Mar-2003
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Ken Sparling's nameless new novel is a window, an open door, a means of escape. The novel's narrator---Ken---works at a library. He's drowning in memos, directives, instructions. Words at their most banal. At home, he and his wife have almost nothing...

• Sep-2005
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"There is no way to describe the book, short of writing the entire thing out by hand. I have put a great deal of loving devotion into creating something that is just itself and I do everything I can to foil the evil plans of villains determined to su...

• May-2010
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Imagine there was just one thing you were trying to say, and you werent even sure what it was you were trying to say exactly, you just felt you had something to say, so you kept trying to say what it was you were trying to say and hoping that one tim...

• Jun-2011
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About the novel: After Chappy leaves home, Mirror falls off the house and comes to an important decision about her future and the future of the owl-eyed boy. On her subsequent journey, Mirror hears a voice like a can opener opening a can of trumpets....

• Sep-2014
• / Literary
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"Ken took a book published by a big publisher, carved out a space for himself, and filled it with his words. It was a book safe that saved words, that kept them safe. The children of his mind." -From the preface by Derek McCormack...

• May-2016
• / Fantasy
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If love is a house, how do we arrange the furniture? Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl’s story sheltering a boy’s poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the p...

• Jun-2023
• / Literary
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Boy meets Girl, Boy marries Girl, and years later Boy mysteriously disappears in this Gordon Lish–style novel.The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about their lives. But one day, like thousands of ...

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