Three years ago, Christian TeBordo’s collection The Awful Possibilities grabbed our attention and held on tight. We hosted TeBordo for an event later that year, and were equally impressed with his live presence. The man’s a fine writer and a fine reader; not a bad combination. This week, we learned that Rescue Press will be releasing TeBordo’s next book, the novel Toughlahoma, next year. Rescue describes it as “a history, a scripture, a goddamn dithyramb, and a public relations campaign all in one.” […]
Reviewed: The Awful Possibilities by Christian TeBordo
(featherproof, 2010) 185 p. Review by Tobias Carroll Punctuating the spaces between stories in Christian TeBordo’s collection The Awful Possibilities are a series of postcards, their images disfigured by the skull-faced raindrops that alight across the book’s cover, their words acting out a parody of intimate communications. “Postcards I sent home when we were last on vacation together so that you would have something to look forward to on our return,” reads a line of text at the bottom of […]