Brian Evenson
(1966 - )
aka B K Evenson
Brian Evenson received an O. Henry Award for his story "Two Brothers" and has twice received O. Henry honorable mentions. In 1995 he received an NEA Fellowship; that same year he was told by Brigham Young University that if he continued to write fiction in the same vein as his first book, he would be fired. Instead, Evenson chose to leave of his own free will to teach at Oklahoma State University. He now teaches in the creative writing program at Brown University.
Novels
Father of Lies (1998)
Dark Property (2002)
Open Curtain (2006)
Last Days (2009)
Immobility (2012)
The Deaths of Henry King (2016) (with Jesse Ball)
Dark Property (2002)
Open Curtain (2006)
Last Days (2009)
Immobility (2012)
The Deaths of Henry King (2016) (with Jesse Ball)
Collections
Altmann's Tongue (1994)
The Din of Celestial Birds (1997)
Contagion (2000)
The Wavering Knife (2004)
Fugue State (2009)
Windeye (2012)
A Collapse of Horses (2016)
The Din of Celestial Birds (1997)
Contagion (2000)
The Wavering Knife (2004)
Fugue State (2009)
Windeye (2012)
A Collapse of Horses (2016)
Chapbooks
Graphic Novels
Novellas
Anthologies edited
Conjunctions 62 - Exile (2014) (with John Ashbery, Martine Bellen, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro and Bradford Morrow)
Anthologies containing stories by Brian Evenson
Short stories
| Hebe Kills Jerry (1994) |
Brian Evenson recommends
The Innocent Party (2012) Aimee Parkison "Aimee Parkison most often begins softly, slowly stripping away each layer of social interaction to get at what is numinous and frightening and necessary about living in the real world. These are stories both about the difficulty and the intense suddenness of human connection, about the profound link that exists between being in love and being alone." | Mormama (2017) Kit Reed "Through a chorus of living and dead voices, all of which know something but none of which know everything Mormama offers the story of a family trauma that has come to infect a place. A terrific story that keeps you on your toes to the very end." | In the River (2017) Jeremy Robert Johnson "Johnson writes with an energy that propels you through some very dark spaces indeed and into something profoundly unsettling but nonetheless human." | |
Sip (2017) Brian Allen Carr "Sip reads like what might happen if Cormac McCarthy dropped acid and then hallucinated a science fiction novel. Half post-apocalyptic disaster, half weird Western, Sip's a blood-slick trip that's nonetheless humane at its core." | The Prague Sonata (2017) Bradford Morrow "The Prague Sonata is a mighty, epic novel that only Bradford Morrow could have written. Moving from New York to Prague to London and beyond, it is a major and compelling work about the persistence of a smart, determined woman with a real commitment both to music and to truth. " |
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