Not the Real Marilyn Monroe

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Brian Swann's previous collection, Dogs on the Roof (MadHat Press, 2016), was praised by Jackson Lears for being "venturesome, witty, delightedly understated and frequently compelling, " while Andrei Codrescu, calling it "an elegant suit of a variety of threads, " placed it on his "A-list of the blooming philosophical hybrids of the last decade." The San Antonio Express-News said that it was "a fascinating miscellany ... replete with brilliant observations ... insightful, witty and outlandishly entertaining."The present collection ranges from "real" to "surreal, " from long short stories to short short stories, to prose-poems long and short, concluding with an essay on the sacred. The book stretches from New York and New Mexico to Italy and England, with a cast of characters that includes a gifted dwarf, hippies, Navajos, and the ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles, as well as a talented parrot, a talking robin, a shaggy dog, a neurotic horse and a law case involving rats. There is also a cameo appearance by the soul.