The stories in Fast Machine come in three sizes: flash, regular, and too-long-for-journal-publication. Some were previously published. There are slightly more than four hundred pages. Zero epigraphs. There are repeated themes: driving, smoking, teenagers, drinking, escape, the Midwest, masturbation, self-loathing and blood.

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I Have Blinded Myself Writing This was written by a woman with an affliction: her body needs her memories to clot her cuts, to heal means to lose parts of her past.  It is a collection of the blueprints, lists, and photographs of memory meant to be private.  It a book written for you.  It is a question: as we lose our memories, do we become fragments of ourselves? It is a plea: participate with me in the remembering and the destruction of memory. 

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Greenfeld writes beautifully crafted stories with an authority, humor, and confidence reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis, Phillip Roth, and Ernest Hemingway.

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The Avian Gospels by Adam Novy

"This debut has the potential to become a cult classic... a fascinating examination of what makes a martyr, a myth, or a legend."
– Publishers Weekly

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Big World by Mary Miller

"Big World gives a full anatomy lesson of the kind of heart that's kick-started by booze, cigarettes, and jukebox songs of regret. Miller writes with savage charm."
– The Believer

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The Sicily Papers by Michelle Orange

"The Sicily Papers embodies the aimless joy (of travel) in a way that most travel books don't. It has the texture of the journey. It has the feel of the unstructured days."
– Frank Bures (books editor, World Hum)

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