Brian Evenson

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August 12, 1966 in Ames, Iowa

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Books by Brian Evenson

Average rating: 3.85 · 6,338 ratings · 912 reviews · 54 distinct works

	The Open Curtain 3.91 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Last Days by Brian Evenson, Peter Straub (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Wavering Knife 4.14 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Fugue State by Brian Evenson, Zak Sally (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Altmann's Tongue by Brian Evenson, Alphonso Lingis (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dark Property 4.19 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Immobility 3.77 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Contagion and Other Stories by Brian Evenson, Evenson 4.20 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Father of Lies 3.52 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Baby Leg 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?”
― Brian Evenson, Fugue State

tags: giving-in , inevitability , possibility

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“There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.”
― Brian Evenson, Fugue State

tags: trauma , void

3 people liked it

“Truth cannot be imparted," said Kline. "It must be inflicted.”
― Brian Evenson

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