Synopses & Reviews
AMERICAN CANDYLAND: Love is a swipe away, toy aisles teem with plastic tanks, nipples are illegal. The Pentagon spends 717 billion dollars a year on war. Scientists say the sixth great extinction event is upon us, and mammals aren't going to make it past the year 2,100.
When faced with disaster, Americans grow robust. We become more of ourselves, with Twitter feuds, celebrity weight loss tricks, covens hexing Trump.
In the dead of night the old ones whisper, "Where has my America gone?" The young ones were born too poor, too late to hear the promises and believe them.
We feel earthquakes, and there is nowhere left to hide.
This is Jennifer Robin's America: Hilarious, heartbreaking, razor-sharp.
About the Author
Jennifer Robin writes grotesque prose. She has toured the West Coast with a mix of avant-garde music and reading, including appearances at Bumbershoot and Portland’s NOFEST. She has been published in PLAZM Media, Whole Beast Rag, Fractalized, Unshod Quills, Dark Bizarra Magazine, Gobshite Quarterly, Imperial Youth Review, HorrorSleazeTrash, and CLASH Media.
Her body of work includes humorous vignettes, post-post-modern theory, gonzo journalism, surrealist flash fiction, travel writing, and erotic horror.
Her novel Bouzi, was published by Creative Arts in 2000. In spring 2016, Robin’s zine, Even Snowflakes Heal and You Can Download Skin was featured in the LadyBox series.
Her book of non-fiction vignettes, Death Confetti: Pickers, Punks, and Transit Ghosts in Portland Oregon, was released by Feral House in 2016. It features lost gods and twisted love through the eyes of an eternal voyeur.