Sorry to Disrupt the Peace(Reprint) A Novel by PattyYumiCottrell Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Mcsweeney's Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-944211-49-3, ISBN: 1-944211-49-7
"Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead.According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reason ..."
"Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen s adoptive brother is dead. According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reaso ..."
"This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. From legends like Ann Beattie and Christine Schutt to cult figures like Scott McClanahan and Tao Lin, this anthology collects writing from some of today’s ..."
"Helen's adoptive brother has killed himself. According to the internet, there are six possible reasons for suicide. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss., Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket back to Milwaukee, her hometown. There, as she attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will f ..."
"A bleakly comic tour de force that's by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and viscerally unsettling, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles?and it announces the singular voice of Patrick Cottrell."
"Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head. McSweeney’s has won multiple literary awards, including two National Magazine Awards for fiction, and has had numerous stories appear in The Best American Magazine Writing, the O. Hen ..."
"Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head McSweeney's has won multiple literary awards, including two National Magazine Awards for fiction, and has had numerous stories appear in The Best American Magazine Writing, the O. Henr ..."
"Thank you early readers Rita Bullwin-kel, Rebecca Elliott, Dan Ivec, Jac Jemc,
Jan Kruse, J, Brandon Shimoda, and Anne K. Yoder. Thank you Colin Winnette,
Kurt Skaife, Bri Smith, Jes Seamans, Alyssa Tuma, the Riepenhoffs, Sarah Peck,
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"This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. Edited by Jordan Castro with contributions by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ann Beattie, Raegan Bird, Blake Butler, CAConrad, Ryan C. K. Choi, Michael W. Clune, Pa ..."
"• A darkly comic, barefaced and mesmerising exploration of grief, loss and identity by a sublimely talented young writer • Sorry to Disrupt the Peace follows Helen Moran as she returns to the Midwestern home of her estranged adoptive ..."
"This is a stunning debut.’ Rebecca Lee, author of Bobcat ‘A sort of Korean-American noir, lean and wry and darkly compelling, I respectfully suggest you read her now.’ Ed Park, author of Personal Days ‘Patty Yumi Cottrell's prose ..."
"Featuring Brad Baumgartner, Donald Breckenridge, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Ashley David, Helmut Dosantos, Ian Dreiblatt, Berit Ellingsen, Ennio Flaiano, Daniel James Fraser, Frank Garrett, Adam Golaski, Anton Ivanov, K. Thomas Kahn, Paul Kavanagh, Lital Khaikin, Jesse Kohn, Meghan Lamb, JD Larson, Evan Lavender-Smith, Eugene Lim, Adam Lovasz, Friederike Mayröcker, Adam McOmber, Iris Moulton, Elliott Niblock, Pierre Senges, Jacob Siefring, Ha ..."
"The eleventh issue of Caketrain, featuring new work from Joseph Aguilar, Jessica Alexander, N. Michelle AuBuchon, C Dylan Bassett, Ruth Baumann, Matt Bell, Eric Lloyd Blix, Trevor Calvert, Hunter Choate, Benjamin Clemenzi-Allen, Jon Cone, Stella Corso, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Lindsey Drager, Tim Earley, Sarah Rose Etter, Knar Gavin, Pamela Gesualdi, A.T. Grant, Lindsay Herko, Robert Lopez, Matthew Mahaney, Elizabeth Mikesch, Muxxi, Thirii ..."
"Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She is accepting a furniture delivery in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen's adoptive brother is dead.According to the Internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reaso ..."