false 47813924 895306 3929408 0963753614 9780963756318 11 <![CDATA[Waste]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217437539m/3929408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217437539s/3929408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3929408.Waste 4.31 42 Waste] concerns a janitor whose use of office workers’ waste and personal objects is queasy… a look at humanity from the slick insides of a wastebasket. --Angle: a Journal of Arts + Culture

"Only Eugene Marten can keep a reader enthralled with the minutiae of a janitorial existence. From the most unlikely of subjects Marten constructs, with great care and taking joy in every sentence, a spellbinding work. Precisely and exquisitely detailed, Waste is a stark little masterpiece." -–Brian Evenson

"There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction." -–Sam Lipsyte

"When a poet pal had put a copy of Waste into my hands, I right away went nuts until I had gotten myself in touch with its author for to add to my household a supply of enough copies to scare all my writer friends with. Here, said I, in wild proclamation, is one for history and a half." -–Gordon Lish

"This is surely one of the darkest and most jarring books I’ve read. It is also pitch-perfect. Waste wastes nothing–not a syllable, a beat, a ragged breath." -–Dawn Raffel


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The style is creepy and minimal and uncomfortably effective. ]]>