The Gymnasium: Exercises in Literary Taxidermy

By Mark Malamud

A Hellenistic god who can't escape his past; a rock band whose music is so bad it paralyzes from the waist down; a black-market vegetable genetically-modified for self-abuse - these are just a few of the stories of melancholy and wonder inside The Gymnasium, an exercise in "literary taxidermy" by the author of Float the Pooch. By "re-stuffing" what goes in-between the opening and closing lines of classic works by Milan Kundera, Virginia Woolf, Richard Brautigan, Ian Fleming, and others, Mark Malamud has stitched together a wholly-original kind of fiction. Come, take a listen to the stories that inspired the Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition. You won't be disappointed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999446207
• ISBN13: 9780999446201
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Regulus Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"