Synopses & Reviews
Kevin Sampsell likes secrets. In the short story collection Beautiful Blemish, Sampsell dives deep into the human psyche to reveal the layers of secret desire, loneliness and hope buried in our hearts. The stories in Beautiful Blemish display an American voice that mixes humor, experimentation and unflinching pathos to full effect.
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"Kevin Sampsell should never be allowed near children. Or electrical outlets. Or water. I'm frightened and thrilled to see what he'll do next." Zoe Trope, author of Please Don't Kill the Freshman
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"Let Kevin Sampsell in for one page and he has permanently won you over with writing that is charmed, painful, hilarious and beautiful. His ability to find magic, humor, and heartbreak where anyone of less talent would see only vacant landscapes leaves you reconsidering every place you've ever been." Dan Kennedy, author of Loser Goes First: My Thirty-Something Years of DumbLuck and Minor Humiliation
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"Quirky, perverse tales of romance and alienation. Fun, winning, and passionate." Tin House magazine
About the Author
Kevin Sampsell is the publisher of the influential micro-press, Future Tense Books, in Portland, Oregon. His work has been published widely in magazines and on the internet. He is also the editor of The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night (Manic D Press) and the author of many small books such as A Common Pornography, Etiquette for Evil, and The Patricia Letters.