Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. A marriage of The Turn of the Screw and Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls, SOME PHANTOM poses questions about the line between madness and memory, fantasy and abuse. NO TIME FLAT follows Wade, a young boy who grows up on the American plains in an isolated existence with his elderly parents, as he makes his way through a childhood of playground shootings and mysterious strangers. "Stephen Beachy is a complete visionary, a sorcerer, a secret weapon. I'm going to plead with everyone I know: read this book. Read it, and gasp, marvel, rage, weep, and applaud"--Scott Heim.
About the Author
Stephen Beachy is a writer. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1965. His first novel, The Whistling Song, was published by W. W. Norton with cover illustrations by Curt Kirkwood in 1991 and his second, Distortion, by Harrington Park Press, in 2000. Two novellas, Some Phantom and No Time Flat are forthcoming in 2006, from Suspect Thoughts Press. His fiction has been published in BOMB, Chicago Review, Blithe House Quarterly, SHADE, and various anthologies. He has written literary criticism for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In October, 2005, he published an article in New York Magazine, exposing the writer JT LeRoy as the concoction of a woman named Laura Albert, with the help of her family members. Beachy teaches in the MFA Program at the University of San Francisco. Beachy is also a second cousin of biologist Philip Beachy and historian Robert Beachy.