What Precision, Such Restraint

Phil Jourdan

A young man seeking to hack into his own unconscious mind.

An academic conference on the metaphysics of flies.

An apocalyptic world where punctuation has been outlawed.

An eating disorder that produces collectible antiques.

A mix of allegory, satire, randomly generated numbers, spam messages rearranged into haiku form, plagiarism, and bad writing presented in the more sophisticated if still unpalatable guise of literary experimentation, Phil Jourdan's collection of stories is infuriating, challenging and other marketing buzzwords.

Published
March 29, 2013
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Phil Jourdan

Phil Jourdan is an author, musician and PhD-researching gentleman from Portugal, living in the UK. He runs Perfect Edge Books, a fiction press, and helps run Zero Books, a politics and cultural criticism press. He has recorded several albums under the name Paris and the Hiltons, including an hour-long album based on the work of William Faulkner. Check out a recent release: http://parisandthehiltons.bandcamp.com/album/just-a-minute-please His blog is www.slothrop.com - yes, "Slothrop" like the character in Thomas Pynchon's novel. No, he couldn't believe that domain name was available either. He's one of the founders of LitReactor, a large…