The Unified Field of Loneliness
$15.95 CAD
Author
Jared Marcel Pollen lives in Prague. He was born in Canada, studied politics and literature at the University of Windsor and received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in NY. Venus&Document (2022) is his debut novel. His book of short stories The Unified Field of Loneliness, published by Crowsnest Books (2019), collects ten stories which take place from Paris to New York to Vienna to London and locates characters living in a condition of terror, solipsism, and displacement in the technological age. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Quillette, Tablet, 3:AM Magazine and Liberties.
Reviews
“The stories in Jared Marcel Pollen’s debut collection proceed with a surgical intensity, as they endeavor to expose the crackling wires of consciousness itself. The Unified Field of Loneliness is a reminder that fiction exists in service to truth, a principle that Pollen embraces with courage, dexterity, and wit.”
– David Hollander, author of L.I.E.
“Jared Marcel Pollen drills into moments that take both his characters and his readers far past the borders of comfort, where ordinary human maneuvering assumes transcendence.
These stories traverse the intimate, the global, the lonely, the brutal. His vision is as clear as it is subtle. We’re fortunate to have him and this astounding debut.”
– Nelly Reifler, author of See Through: Stories
“Jared Marcel Pollen’s fiction is rich with mind–with an intelligence both moral and mischievous. Readers of Helen DeWitt and Ben Lerner will find here another writer to admire.”
– Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening
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