All I Can Truly Deliver, cover stories by Matt Vadnais.

"What I love most about each of these enigmatic, glistery, beautiful, and intricately inventive stories is their valuable celebration of and commitment to the Difficult Imagination. Comprised of skewed appropriations and manipulations of “canonical” work by the likes of Melville, Kafka, and Joyce, this collection reminds us again and again of two profound points: that “originality” and “truth” are, at best, states of mind, and that loss and death remain the only two things we’ll never really be able to deconstruct. All I Can Truly Deliver marks the arrival of an important new talent to the festival called exploratory fiction." —Lance Olsen, Girl Imagined by Chance

Matt Vadnais was born in Minnesota and educated in North Dakota, Iowa, and Idaho. He has worked professionally as an actor, security guard, radio personality, and dancing coyote. His stories have appeared in Fence, DIAGRAM, and New Orleans Review. He teaches and writes in Port Angeles, Washington, where he lives with his wife, the poet Mary Ann Hudson. This is his first book.

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