In the novel STEPHEN FLORIDA, Habash is after something more than a character study. Stephen is as much a condition as a character, an existential fact. In this excerpt, Stephen visits an oil field on the recommendation of a career counselor. (One of Habash's talents, in this and many other scenes, is to reveal the hilariously absurd in the crushingly banal.) He stays with the counselor's nephew - throughout the passage Stephen thinks of him as "Nephew Shane" - who turns out to be even more severely off-kilter, more walled-off and strange, than Stephen himself. - Garth Greenwell
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About the Author: Gabe Habash is the fiction reviews editor for Publishers Weekly. He holds an MFA from New York University and lives in New York.
About the Guest Editor: Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the 2017 British Book Award for Debut of the Year and was a finalist for seven other awards, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
About the Publisher: Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature's weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Recommended Reading is supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For other links from Electric Literature, follow us, or sign up for our eNewsletter.
Genre: Mystery
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About the Author: Gabe Habash is the fiction reviews editor for Publishers Weekly. He holds an MFA from New York University and lives in New York.
About the Guest Editor: Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the 2017 British Book Award for Debut of the Year and was a finalist for seven other awards, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
About the Publisher: Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature's weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Recommended Reading is supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For other links from Electric Literature, follow us, or sign up for our eNewsletter.
Genre: Mystery
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