The Solo Show (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading)

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"David Greenwood’s writing is, like him, immense: it contains an immensity of pathos, of language, of eccentricity, and of imagination. Here, in “The Solo Show,” an aspiring artist named Bromley decides not to struggle in obscurity, but rather be frozen for it in a cryogenic unit kept in his landlord’s basement. “The Solo Show” isn’t just innately lonely, the way life sometimes is; it uses language and depth of feeling to illuminate loneliness as a deceptively simple concept." - Halimah Marcus

About the Author: David Greenwood’s stories appear in Fence , Tin House’s Open Bar, Dislocate, Hot Metal Bridge, The “Original” Trout Family Almanac, The Brooklyn Review, Fiction Fix, and elsewhere. He can’t bear to make a website for himself, but can be reached, if you’re lonely, at [email protected]. He’s at work on a novel.

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