The Marble Corridor

The Marble CorridorThe Marble Corridor is the middle book of Ryan Madej's Midtown Tetralogy, a four novel cycle set in a decaying urban shadow city called Midtown. The other three appeared from VoidFront Press and Orbis Tertius Press; this one came to JEF. Manuel Marrero, calling the novel a found artifact, placed Madej in the Argentine magical realist line that runs through Cortazar and Calvino, and both readings are exact: the prose is esoteric and recursive, closer

Tarnawsky was an unusually articulate explainer of his own practice

a recently widowed retired psychoanalyst with degrees in English literature from the University of Chicago

lit as if on a bright stage

not the observer's

Love between two people is shown to be as transient as a cloud

named first what is rarest about the book: that it addresses schizophrenia from the subject position

Ricardo Cortez Cruz called it "rest(less) lit at its finest

the short performed pieces aggregating until the second-person "you" the title names is pushed toward release

won the 1995 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Nonfiction

Longing for Kimberly's love

Oppression for the Heaven of It is a dialogue-driven novel about a son and a mother

botanical Latin