HAYWIRE
Blue Streak Books is pleased to announce the release of a second edition of Thaddeus Rutkowski’s Haywire, a jarring, funny, at points disturbing, yet somehow encouraging novel constructed of flash fiction pieces.
Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of several books: collection Border Crossings, Guess and Check, Tetched, and Roughhouse among others. A winner of a 2012 fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Rutkowski has been nominated for Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared in several anothologies. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times.
Haywire was a finalist in the fiction category of the Asian American Literary Awards, and it won the Members' Choice Award, given by members of the Asian American Writers Workshop in New York. A 2011 review of Haywire Publisher’s Weekly characterized Rutkowski’s “flash stories” as “mostly gems:”
Each but a few pages long…each a moment of observation or action narrated by a biracial young man (father is Polish-American, mother is Chinese-American) whose coming-of-age is divided into three parts … Unlike a lot of flash fiction, which tends to be built around a conceit or written toward a punch line, Rutkowski's best moments crackle unimpeded by self-consciousness.
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Thaddeus Rutkowski teaches at Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute, Medgar Evers College and the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA, and lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
To learn more about work and appearances by Thaddeus Rutkowski, please visit his author’s website: http://www.thaddeusrutkowski.com.
