My Landlady the Lobotomist
- 120 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Eckhard Gerdes Books
Eckhard Gerdes is a novelist and editor whose work delves into the struggles individuals face in transcending fear and limitation. He employs experimental techniques, sometimes disregarding conventional notions of time, space, or causality to craft narratives that explore profound psychological depths. Recently associated with the Bizarro Fiction movement, he stands as one of its key proponents. Gerdes also serves as the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, contributing to discussions on modern and postmodern literature.
Ring in a River
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
With Ring in a River,the new novel by Eckhard Gerdes, one of America's most innovative novelists, Gerdes further pries the novel away from its subservience to 19th century literary conventions and enthusiastically flings it into the realities of modern life.When Eckhard Gerdes's Truly Fine Citizen was published in 1989, the innovative British novelist Michael Moorcock said it was "the work of a writer clearly impatient with the currently devalued conventions of modern fiction. The book is a fresh wind. I congratulate Mr. Gerdes on raising this particular storm!"With Ring in a River, the storm continues unabated. Eckhard Gerdes takes the reader into the world of Austin, Texas, circa April 1962, and transplants a newly disenfranchised Iowa philosophy professor into a life of jazz, ornithology, madness, and self-redefinition in that inimitable way which we have come to expect of this great writer.
The Pissers' Theatre
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
IS THE FOURTH WALL A URINAL? In Eckhard Gerdes's fifteenth novel, two women friends - one from the city, the other from the suburbs - attend opening night of a cryptic new play: "Pissers' Theatre." Oddly enough, both the play and the theatre it's being presented in have been designed to accommodate audience incontinence. Thus, the production pauses whenever someone needs to empty their bladder. This bizarre experiment plays havoc with the show's continuity and leads our heroines into strange places - onstage and off. An offbeat and amusing new novel by a master fictioneer.