{"product_id":"critique-of-pure-reason","title":"Critique of Pure Reason","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCRITIQUE OF PURE REASON\u003c\/em\u003e, Gabriel Blackwell bends found forms to story, repurposes history, sets mathematics and a programmer's logic to generating emotion and wonder. This is the work of a talented storyteller slyly taking the stance of a documentary filmmaker, or else of a first-rate bureaucrat, perhaps rising quickly through our Ministry of Imagination—and with each new diagram and footnote and well-made sentence the philosopher in Blackwell provides us another piece of that most illusive of proofs, a verification of our shared humanity, captured here in all its absurdity and horror and glory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGabriel Blackwell\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eCORRECTION\u003c\/em\u003e, the short fiction collection \u003cem\u003eBabel,\u003c\/em\u003e the collection of essays and fictions \u003cem\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/em\u003e, and the novels \u003cem\u003eMadeleine E., The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eShadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer\u003c\/em\u003e. Since 2013, he has been editor-in-chief of the magazine \u003cem\u003eThe Rupture\u003c\/em\u003e (formerly \u003cem\u003eThe Collagist\u003c\/em\u003e). His short fiction and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eConjunctions, Tin House\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTin House Online, Post Road, Puerto del Sol, DIAGRAM, The Adroit Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, wigleaf​, Always Crashing​\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other places. He lives in Spokane, Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In Critique of Pure Reason, Gabriel Blackwell bends found forms to story, repurposes history, sets mathematics and a programmer's logic to generating emotion and wonder. This is the work of a talented storyteller slyly taking the stance of a documentary filmmaker, or else of a first-rate bureaucrat, perhaps rising quickly through our Ministry of Imagination—and with each new diagram and footnote and well-made sentence the philosopher in Blackwell provides us another piece of that most illusive of proofs, a verification of our shared humanity, captured here in all its absurdity and horror and glory.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMatt Bell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Unique and compelling as the very souls they depict—from the unknown to the famous to the infamous—these stories are wildly inventive, sly, astute. There's a bit of Sir Thomas Browne (Borges, too) for the twenty-first century in these wizardly, magical narratives. The notion of 'pure reason' has rarely had a more subtle, comical, yet deeply humane alchemist at work in the great lab of fiction than Gabriel Blackwell.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eBradford Marrow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gabriel Blackwell's Critique of Pure Reason is a transgeneric textual labyrinth. Readers will take great pleasure in wandering these peculiar dark halls, encountering the shadows of Raymond Chandler, Sid Vicious, The Marx Brothers and David Lynch, to name a few.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAdam McOmber\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526377951507,"sku":"9781934819265","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781934819265ita.jpg?v=1785852129","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/critique-of-pure-reason","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}