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What we see in The Consummation of Dirk is a mind at work, a mind on overdrive, a mind that is relentlessly chasing down thoughts that tumble and slide and build and then circle back home only to be sent out into the world again, broken and beautiful. Jonathan Callahan’s stories are twisted and hilarious and brilliant and announce the arrival of an extraordinarily gifted writer.
—Robert Lopez, author of Asunder
Jonathan Callahan’s every strength is balanced by another strength: his fierce wit is matched by a righteous anger, his reverence for David Foster Wallace and Thomas Bernhard by an obvious determination to create his own literary ground to stand upon. He clearly worries his sentences but he does so with a sense of play, and while he often seeks to expose and illuminate the many indignities of life, he also clearly knows how a heart can be made to burst by better things than heartbreak. The Consummation of Dirk is the ambitious debut of a writer already powerful formed, one absolutely worthy of our full attention.”
—Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
Jonathan Callahan has a way of winding you up and, when you least expect it, hurling you into the beautiful unknown. The Consummation of Dirk is a raucous, cerebral, impassioned paean to youth, misfits, yearners, heroes, and art.”
—Alex Shakar, author of Luminarium