Dieser Autor taucht in die dunkleren Aspekte der menschlichen Psyche ein und erforscht Themen wie Trauma, Verlust und komplexe zwischenmenschliche Dynamiken. Sein Schreiben ist roh, intim und oft provokativ, wobei er die Verletzlichkeit und Widerstandsfähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes offenbart. Die Erzählungen sind voller lebendiger Bilder und starker Emotionen, die die Leser zu tiefen Reflexionen über das Leben und seine Schwierigkeiten anregen. Durch seine literarischen Werke fordert er die Leser heraus, ihre eigene Existenz und die Zerbrechlichkeit menschlicher Erfahrung zu betrachten.
In 2014, after the release of his debut novel, celebrated writer and visionary publisher Kevin Sampsell switched gears and turned to a new creative obsession: making collage art. Initially influenced by the wild cutup language of William S. Burroughs, Sampsell soon discovered countless modern collagists that inspired him to take his art further and further from where it started. Years later, he finds himself at the center of a growing movement of 21st Century cut and paste
In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities.Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan Kruse, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, and Jonathan Selwood.Editor Kevin Sampsell is a bookstore employee and writer. He is the author of a short story collection, Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press), and the upcoming memoir The Suitcase (HarperPerennial, summer 2009). He is also the editor of The Insomniac Reader (Manic D Press) and the publisher of the micropress Future Tense Books.