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Brian Kubarycz is a literature professor at the Honors College of the University of Utah. In addition to teaching and writing fiction, Kubarycz paints and exhibits visual art, and performs in various musical groups. His enthusiasm for the arts derives from two primary sources: physical mediums (whether India ink or guitars), and the practice of offering and receiving art within the social economy of the gift. He lives in Salt Lake City.
""In prose both ecstatic and haunted, Kubarycz tears apart the known world to unveil the space stalked both by religion and selfhood that lies behind it. These are powerful, eccentric and visionary tales, the sorts of things that people tell one another around the campfire after days without food as they slowly go mad. An impressive, devastating first book."" – Brian Evenson, Good Night, Sleep Tight""Just as Poe's narrator lured Fortunato through the catacombs with the delicious and intoxicating promise of a rare cask of amontillado, so does Brian Kubarycz's collection, Perdition, lead us through a landscape of language that is as curiously engaging as a stroll through a charnel house: at times lush and gorgeous, while melding both quiet horror and haunting beauty. We are unsettled by it, uneasy, but thoroughly seduced in finding bits of our own psyches revealed therein, and so we turn that slitted page for more, and read on."" – Pamela Ryder, Paradise Field, and the forthcoming Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him
