Travis Jeppesen's novel of criminal teens hunting their truth through a media wasteland is furiously horny, drunk, stoned, hilarious, querulous, smart. He is a bad American for living abroad, but a great American novelist because of it, and because of his language, which bleeds from the heart. The Suiciders is the best book for a world in which the best readers are prisoners. Its words are violent, its sentences for life. -- Joshua Cohen, author of Witz and Four New Messages Travis Jeppesen is one of the most interesting writers around. -- Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder and C.
Travis Jeppesen (born 1979) is an American novelist, poet, artist, and art critic currently based in Berlin. He is the author of The Suiciders (Semiotext(e)), Poems I Wrote while Watching TV, See You Again in Pyongyang, and other books.
There is violence and sex and plenty of blood spilled, but rather than totally numb the reader, the dark stuff enervates the brain, agitates and offends the reader, and then placates and pleases with those beautiful, ugly turns of phrase. The Suiciders may destroy everything they touch, but the destruction is creative.—Molly O'Brien, Bookslut
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