Brock Clarke esplora nella sua prosa la complessità della psiche umana, ricercando il significato in un mondo spesso assurdo. Il suo stile distintivo si caratterizza per un umorismo penetrante e svolte inaspettate che spingono il lettore a mettere in discussione la propria percezione della realtà. Clarke fonde magistralmente temi esistenziali con una narrazione accessibile, creando opere che stimolano la riflessione e coinvolgono il lettore.
In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can--and can't--do
Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, has come to the end of a very long and unusual journey. The truth is, a lot of remarkable things have happened in Sam's life. He spent ten years in prison for accidentally burning down poet Emily Dickinson's house - and unwittingly killing two people in the process. He emerged aged twenty-eight and set about creating a new life for himself. He went to college, found love, got married, fathered two children, and made a new start - and then watched in almost-silent awe as the vengeful past caught up with him, right at his own front door. As, one by one, the homes of other famous New England writers are torched, Sam knows that this time he is most certainly not guilty. To prove his innocence, he sets out to uncover the identity of this literary-minded arsonist