Permanent Exhibit: 31 (American Reader, 31)

New
Paperback
2018
$13.39

Matthew Volmer fuses the insight of extended meditation with the immediacy of social media in his new collection Permanent Exhibit. These collage-style essays experiment with stream-of-conscious musings as Vollmer opens a browser window into his own mind: letting his thoughts wander through a fast-forward montage of flying snakes, mass shootings, emojis, pop stars, stargazing, ghosts, circuses, and a hundred other things. Full of keen observations and unexpected insights, Permanent Exhibit reclaims the art of letting one's mind wander in the age of the status update.

Synopsis

Matthew Volmer fuses the insight of extended meditation with the immediacy of social media in his new collection Permanent Exhibit. These collage-style essays experiment with stream-of-conscious musings as Vollmer opens a browser window into his own mind: letting his thoughts wander through a fast-forward montage of flying snakes, mass shootings, emojis, pop stars, stargazing, ghosts, circuses, and a hundred other things. Full of keen observations and unexpected insights, Permanent Exhibit reclaims the art of letting one's mind wander in the age of the status update.

$13.39

Save:$2.88 (18%)

Quantity

16 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 27 Sep 2018
ISBN 10: 1942683685
ISBN 13: 9781942683681
Book Overview: Galley mailing to key reviewers and media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. Advanced review copies sent to key review outlets such as Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The LA Times, The Rumpus, Poets & Writers, Huffington Post Poetry, BookForum, LA Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, NPR, etc. National advertising: Poets & Writers, American Poets, and the Academy of American Poets newsletter. Outreach to online media and bloggers including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, Literary Hub etc. Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, etc. Fall book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly. Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog: Facebook (6,800+ followers), Twitter (8,000 followers), Instagram (2,200+ followers), and Pinterest (840+ followers) accounts; print and e-postcards; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic book announcement postcards will be sent to author's list of academic contacts, reviewer contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 7,500+ contacts. Ebook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed. Publisher and author will be promoting both electronic and print editions via social media. Matthew will attend and sign books at the 2019 AWP Conference in Portland, OR. Matthew will read from and promote this title at the Clemson Literary Festival in Clemson, SC, in April 2018. Plans for a multi-city book tour, including readings in Boston, MA, Asheville, NC, Roanoke, VA, Charlottesville, VA, Washington, DC, Rochester, NY, and New York, NY. Possible joint readings/events with Erika Meitner. Promotion through the author's website and social media feeds. Website: matthewvollmer.com Twitter: @matthewvollmer Instagram: @thematthewvollmer

Media Reviews

Praise for Matthew Vollmer Becoming conscious of the process by which we are produced may be the only available step to enabling our status as players rather than simply played, though it is no exit from the game itself. And that, to me, is what makes Matthew Vollmer's fiction compelling at a much deeper level than the play of wit, sensibility, and intelligence in his craft. --The Brooklyn Rail

Irresistible --The New York Times

Vollmer's writing is my new favorite example of what it must be like to see a life flash before your eyes. --Fiction Advocate

Captivating journeys with a playful, winsome guide. --Kirkus Reviews

Who else but Matthew Vollmer would travel in status faux-updates from Justin Bieber to embalming fluids, from a presidential execution order to an Amazon order for cutlery? A thrilling, hilarious book about the difference between privacy and publicity, between exhibition and excavation, between ephemera and art (hint: the saving grace of life on earth is human consciousness). --David Shields

Author Bio

Matthew Vollmer was born in Asheville, North Carolina and grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is the author of two collections of short fiction--Gateway to Paradise (Persea, 2015) and Future Missionaries of America (MacAdam/Cage, 2009; Salt Publishing, 2010)--as well as a collection of essays: inscriptions for headstones (Outpost19, 2012). His work has appeared in Paris Review, Glimmer Train, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Ecotone, New England Review, The Sun, Best American Essays, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. With David Shields, he co-edited FAKES: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, Found Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (W. W. Norton, 2012), and he served as editor for The Book of Uncommon Prayer, an anthology of everyday invocations featuring the work of over 60 writers. A winner of a 2010 NEA grant for literature, he teaches in the English Department at Virginia Tech, where he is an Associate Professor, and lives in Blacksburg with his wife and son.