THE MOST STOLEN BOOK AT AWP 2009...

I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF THEN KILL THE CLONE AND EAT IT

SAM PINK

PAPER HERO PRESS

168 PGS.

ORDERING INFO HERE:

http://paperheropress.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-am-going-to-clone-myself-then-kill.html

Blake Butler (editor of Lamination Colony and No Colony. Author of EVER from Calamari Press):

"Sam Pink exists in all things. Sam Pink's tremor is threaded through the dark sections of scenes in the first Back to the Future, the sections we generally think of as 'night.' Sam Pink gored his way to the center of the child Russell Edson and ate all the beautiful / smart / wicked / fucked / riotous / smarmy / unconditional parts about him, then went to incubate and redouble. Sam Pink absorbed the passing souls of Andy Kaufman, Anton LaVey, Klaus Kinski and Shel Silverstein and fried them in his mother's blood. When Sam Pink emerged he wasn't crying, but everyone in the hospital was, tears of whiskey, liquid gold and smegma, and within seconds of his first breath, all our Bibles were ripped in half, prefiguring this book here, this tumor, this thing that should not have a name. It is no exaggeration to say now, with a mouth full of blood, that Sam Pink is dire, is hilarious, is chewing up our future."

Sam Pink's neighbor:

"Look, I did what you said. I bought your shitty book. Now stop trying to light my dog on fire."