Patrick Wensink on Unbound - Fiction on the Radio

If you've not read Patrick's book Broken Piano For President you REALLY should. It's fantastic, and it introduced me to the new guiding light of my life. WWGD? (what would Gibby do?)

Patrick Wensink - Sex Dungeon For Sale

As I blogged about here last week, I recently finished Patrick Wensink's novel Broken Piano For President. If you dig reading, if you dig Chuck Palahniuk, if you dig The Butthole Surfers ('cuz they figure into the book in a huge thematic way) then you should definitely read this book. Fantastic.

A couple of years ago I read Wensink's first anthology, Sex Dungeon For Sale. It wasn't until just last week though that I'd ever seen the above. Nice.

Patrick Wensink's Broken Piano For President

Just finished reading this novel by Patrick Wensink last night while I sweated and shivered through what was hopefully the final night of this awful sickness. Pat's book made it better. Or it fit the tone of the evening perfectly, as Wensink's roiling, often hallucinatory style fit with my feverish delirium. Think Chuck Palahniuk, Thomas Pynchon and the music of The Butthole Surfers (who figure into the protagonist, Deshler Dean's life in a MAJOR way) thrown in to a meat grinder and you might end up with a burger that could change your life. Because that's what the book is about - the fast food burger business. And cliff drinking. And blackouts. And starving Russian cosmonauts. And punk rock. And art. And head wounds.

Everything I'm into in one neat little package. It's like he wrote it just for me!!!