{"title":"Adam McOmber","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdam McOmber is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/new-releases\/products\/my-house-gathers-desires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (BOA Editions, Fall 2017), \u003ci\u003eThe White Forest\u003c\/i\u003e (Touchstone, 2012), and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/fiction\/products\/this-new-and-poisonous-air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis New \u0026amp; Poisonous Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (BOA Editions, 2011), from which he had stories nominated for two 2012 Pushcart Prizes. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eConjunctions, Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the longtime managing and associate editor for the literary magazine \u003ci\u003eHotel America\u003c\/i\u003e at Columbia College Chicago before moving to Los Angeles where he now teaches at Loyola Marymount University. For more information about Adam McOmber, please visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/adammcomber.com\/\"\u003eadammcomber.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"this-new-and-poisonous-air","title":"This New and Poisonous Air","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e     She admits she is pleased when the new placard is raised, “Madame Tussaud’s House of Wax.” She stands in the crowd with François at her side. He leans close enough to touch her ear with the fringe of his mustache and whispers, “What part of the museum would the famous Madame Tussaud like to survey on her inaugural visit?”\u003cbr\u003e      “The Chamber of Horrors, I think,” she says softly.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e     “Really, my dear? All that grim fantasy and blood?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e     “There is no fantasy about it, Francois. It is an embryo, a showing of what is to come.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlending historical fiction with fantasy and the macabre, Adam McOmber’s debut short story collection brings the influence of Angela Carter, Isak Dinesen, and Edgar Allen Poe to the next generation. In “The Automatic Garden,” a solitary architect from the court at Versailles builds a water-powered pleasure garden; in “There Are No Bodies Such as This” we read a haunted and romantic fiction about the creation of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum; in “Fall, Orpheum” a small town movie palace becomes the temple for an entire town’s devotion and sacrifice. Adam McOmber seamlessly blends history, artifice and desire to create a dream of the past that intertwines with our own notions of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdam McOmber’s stories appear in \u003cem\u003eConjunctions, StoryQuarterly, Third Coast, The Greensboro Review, Arts and Letters, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Quarterly West\u003c\/em\u003e. He is assistant director of Creative Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago and associate editor of the literary magazine \u003cem\u003eHotel Amerika.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420130693,"sku":"9781934414514","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/NewaandPoisonous.jpg.JPG?v=1527683638"},{"product_id":"my-house-gathers-desires","title":"My House Gathers Desires","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdam McOmber’s lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations. In the tradition of Angela Carter or Kelly Link, \u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e is covertly funny and haunting, seeking fresh ways to consider sexual identity and its relation to history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eSodom and Gomorrah,\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e readers encounter a subversive, ecstatic new version of the Old Testament story. In \"The Re’em,\" a medieval monk’s search for a mythic beast conjures forbidden desire. And in \"Notes on Inversion,\" the German psychiatrist Kraft-Ebbing receives a surreal retort to his clinical descriptions of same-sex desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eClassical in form and feel, these stories wear dread like an antique cabinet wears a patina: richly and fully, intensely integrated with the beauty of the writing itself. Somber and subtly alarming, and well worth the read.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Brian Evenson, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Collapse of Horses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eNot only is the level of erudition and inquiry evident in these stories supremely impressive, Adam McOmber\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es storytelling skills are also sublime. He mines the darker corners of the human psyche and presents us with one vivid and startling discovery after another; he likewise finds the secret beating hearts of his characters' desires, longings that would be equally at home in a Poe or an Angela Carter story. This is a breathtaking new collection of stories.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Christine Sneed, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Virginity of Famous Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortraits of a Few of the People I\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003eve Made Cry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eLike the Wunderkammern of the 17th and 18th centuries—so named because they were supposed to evoke wonder, a state their assemblers felt precipitated all true knowledge—the cabinet of curiosity that is Adam McOmber\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewill leave its readers in wonder, well on their way to discovering the nature of the relationship between doppelgängers, revenants, demons, and those haunted by them. It is an exquisite feeling, thrilling, terrifying and fascinating. I started reading the book again as soon as I had finished.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Gabriel Blackwell, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadeleine E. \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a flung-open vault of astonishments, a curation of the untamed and unimaginable made flesh. Adam McOmber’s astoundingly inventive fiction contains all the mischief and glee of a mad-scientist on holiday.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Brian Leung, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTake Me Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare at once mythic and intimate, erudite and immediately relatable. I\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003em always impressed and delighted by the capaciousness of Adam McOmber\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es imagination: how he brings the fine aesthetic attention of the antiquarian to every story he tells, and how he inevitably manages to frighten and satisfy in equal measure. If you believe (as I do) that scary stories are the best stories, then cozy up—you\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003ere about to meet your new favorite author.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Camille DeAngelis, author of the Alex Award-winning\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBones \u0026amp; All\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An otherworldly collection of tales rich with mystery, suspense, and eroticism.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eIn the mode of Shirley Jackson, A. S. Byatt, Kathryn Davis, and Kelly Link, McOmber has fashioned crisply rendered, richly informed and imagined, sorrowful, malevolently erotic, and archly funny campfire tales for grownups.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e[McOmber’s] pantry of interests is on full display, is in full \u003cem\u003eplay\u003c\/em\u003e, as he navigates gender and sexuality through the lens of dark dreams, science fiction, medical quackery, and fairy tales. The reader travels from a dark lake in the opening story to a collaboration of voices in the final story who dare us not to imagine sitting around a campfire to hear daring new possibilities of queer story telling.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Lambda Literary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33013257289,"sku":"9781942683414","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/MyHouseGathersDesires_CVR.jpg?v=1527683302"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/AdamMcOmber_PhotoBy_RyanBakerink.jpg?v=1495131026","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/adam-mcomber.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}