{"product_id":"is-it-so-glimpses-glyphs-found-novels-paperback","title":"Is It So?: Glimpses, Glyphs, \u0026 Found Novels - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin McIlvoy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last work of fiction from acclaimed author Kevin McIlvoy, Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, \u0026amp; Found Novels showcases McIlvoy's artistic dedication to the irreal, the carnivalesque, to ghost stories, fairy tales, the short short form-writing that thrives in the edges, margins, and borderlands. A retired dance instructor battles a flock of dive-bombing crows for control of his garden. A teacher and his students develop an uncommon bond with a toy parrot. A seeker in the alternate universe of a DMV is dispatched through numberless corridors to see the Clerk of Happiness. Is It So? tunnels deep into the recesses of long-life experience. With clear-eyed and transformative vision-and confidence in the power of truths left unspoken-Kevin McIlvoy gifts readers \"found\" stories excavated from the everyday. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin McIlvoy's collection Is It So? straddles ordinary vision and unusual sensations. Recklessly, marvelously, these prose pieces call on us to question reality as they cut a trail through the underbrush of perceptions, giving us glimpses of beauty in sunsets, crows, and phantasms-and an avid discernment of wonder within even the afflicted and the ordinary. -Anita Felicelli, author of Chimerica and Love Songs for a Lost Continent \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are wildly innovative stories that reward a second, even a third, reading. Some are funny, others heartbreaking, many both. The best are absolutely brilliant. -Richard Russo, author of \"Somebody's Fool\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis dazzling final fiction collection from Kevin McIlvoy dips into and out of sparkling worlds of dark wonder. The glyphs, glimpses, and found novels in Is It So?-from friendships with toy parrots and holy dogs to high-stakes conversations about cake and sonic landscapes to wild instructions for final dispositions-stunningly evoke the tragic brightness and the comic darkness of lived experience. This is a book that dances and sings and dies and lives. This is a book by a master devoted to the daring art of making the most pressing mysteries-the ones beneath the words-deeply, truly, fully felt. -Joseph Scapellato, author of The Made-Up Man and Big Lonesome \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book may be the most personal of Mc's prose works. In the autographical bits-disguised, as is all autobiography in all his works by veiling, distortion, and transposition-he is, as I see it, putting his heart in order. There is reckoning-the jettisoning of romantic notions about self and others, and acknowledgment that too often our self-delusions mean we fail to see what's beneath a clear surface. But there is equally present the hard-won wisdom of an elder taking the long view on life's trials and joys, and the inevitability of death.-Christine Hale, author of A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice and wife of Kevin McIlvoy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin \"Mc\" McIlvoy\u003c\/b\u003e published six novels, \u003ci\u003eOne Kind Favor (WTAW Press) \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Waltz\u003c\/i\u003e (Lynx House Press), \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Station\u003c\/i\u003e (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; paperback, Collier\/Macmillan), \u003ci\u003eLittle Peg\u003c\/i\u003e (Atheneum\/Macmillan; paperback, Harper Perennial), \u003ci\u003eHyssop\u003c\/i\u003e (TriQuarterly Books; paperback, Avon), and \u003ci\u003eAt the Gate of All Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo Press); a short story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete History of New Mexico \u003c\/i\u003e (Graywolf Press); and a collection of prose poems and short fictions, \u003ci\u003e57 Octaves Below Middle C\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books). For twenty-seven years he was fiction editor and editor in chief of the national literary magazine, \u003ci\u003ePuerto del Sol\u003c\/i\u003e. He taught in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program in Creative Writing from 1987 to 2019; he taught as a Regents Professor of Creative Writing in the New Mexico State University MFA Program from 1981 to 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50344936669421,"sku":"9781733661935","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/cSnQjQ88Fd9781733661935.webp?v=1785196191","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/is-it-so-glimpses-glyphs-found-novels-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}