ARGONAUT BOOKS

I hugely enjoyed Sail Away Land. Bizarre and disquieting... Very few, if any contemporary writers, capture the drudgery of life in capitalist society, the scourge of deferred gratification, in quite the way that Ben Pester does, the feeling of being constantly trapped inside an anxiety dreamSara BaumeMoving deftly between corporate weirdness, the anxiety of rejection, and the warm haze of childhood memory, Sail Away Land is just how I like my short story collections: playful and particular. I feel lucky to have read itSaba Sams'Pester is a genius of capturing the vicissitudes of contemporary l...Read More