Scorch Atlas (15 page)
Authors: Blake Butler
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you more than thanking to my parents, L.D. and Barbara, two unmatchables, without whom…
Thank you to my sister, Morgan, who knows, and to Justin.
Thank you to Heather for the time, and for our air.
Thank you to Zach and Jonathan for being, and believing.
Thank you to Michael Kimball, Keith Montesano, Ryan Call, for the wise eyes.
Thank you to Derek White, Robert Lopez, and Peter Markus, each a brother.
Thank you to Jesse Ball and Ken Sparling.
Thank you to Ken Baumann, Sean Kilpatrick, Mike Young, Sam Pink, Gene Morgan, Shane Jones, Jamie Iredell, Matthew Simmons, Lily Hoang, Chris Higgs, Justin Taylor, and Adam Robinson.
Thank you to a lot of other people also, whose names could fill another book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Blake Butler is the author of the novella
EVER
(Calamari Press). He edits ‘the internet literature magazine blog of the future’ HTML Giant, as well as two journals of innovative text:
Lamination Colony
, and concurrently with co-editor Ken Baumann,
No Colony
. His other writing has appeared in
The Believer, Unsaid, Fence,
Dzanc’s
Best of the Web 2009
, as well as shortlisted in
Best American Nonrequired Reading
and widely online and in print. He lives in Atlanta, and blogs at
gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com
.
EVER
(Calamari Press). He edits ‘the internet literature magazine blog of the future’ HTML Giant, as well as two journals of innovative text:
Lamination Colony
, and concurrently with co-editor Ken Baumann,
No Colony
. His other writing has appeared in
The Believer, Unsaid, Fence,
Dzanc’s
Best of the Web 2009
, as well as shortlisted in
Best American Nonrequired Reading
and widely online and in print. He lives in Atlanta, and blogs at
gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com
.
EVER
A
NOVELLA
BY BLAKE BUTLER
NOVELLA
BY BLAKE BUTLER
CALAMARIPRESS.COM
Copyright © 2009 by Blake Butler
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except in the case of short passages quoted in reviews.
This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. Where the names of actual celebrities or corporate entities appear, they are used for fictional purposes and do not constitute assertions of fact. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2008940499
eISBN : 978-0-982-58086-8
Set in Quadraat
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