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Edsel Relic, a performance poet who has just been diagnosed with
Tourette Syndrome, receives an invitation from his unrequited
highschool love to attend his 25th school class reunion. In his
internal debate whether to go, he reassesses his life as a teenage
outsider seeking refuge in the jazz life through a series of
hallucinatory episodes that include cameo appearances by Walter
Cronkite.
Vernon Frazer's Relic's
Reunions is a wonderful blend of two sorts of books. It is a
great novel about entering your forties and facing the test of the
high school reunion. It is also a great subterranean novel, a worthy
heir to Jack Kerouac and Chandler Brossard. It talks about successes
and failures in a free-flowing style that draws from jazz, poetry,
movies---and it does all this in a funny bittersweet voice that is a
great comment on the late nineties. . .The best of what Beat might
have become is becoming now through Vernon Frazer.
---Don Web, authorA Spell for the Fulfillment of Desire
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A
finalist in the 1996 Black Ice/FC2 Fiction Contest, Stay Tuned to
this Channel explores the terra incognita of cutting-edge fiction in
thirteen stories as accessible as they are adventurous. Frazer's
narrative techniques create a mixed-media surrounding of the senses
through which a wit whips from antic to acidic at the turn of a
phrase. In the course of challenging conventional assump-tions about
what constitutes reality, Stay Tuned to This Channel seeks---and finds---a heightened reality whose distortions present a
pointed reflection of daily life in America's commodity-driven
culture.
"...like Bartheleme or Chris Mazza, with a strong sense of fun, of
what to do with text... The best of what Beat might have become is
becoming now through Vernon Frazer."
---Don Webb, author
Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book
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An
author writing Commercial Fiction while working for a
government agency awakens in such a disoriented state that he can’t tell
if he’s writing at work or at home. His attempts to regain his sense of
reality whirl him through a wonderland of hilariously conceived
characters and situations. Commercial Fiction’s sup-porting
cast includes sex-addicted government officials, silicon-en-hanced TV
stars, gun-running charity workers, soap opera actors and other
unforgettable characters driven to desperate acts in their pursuit of
power, money, and love. " It's a great book, a book I've always felt
someone should write, thinking maybe I would do it at some point--and
now I don't have to.
---Stephen-Paul Martin, author Instead of Confusion
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