Memorabilia

Advance Praise for Memorabilia

"Coomer is one of those rare newer writers who seems to have emerged
fully formed. In Memorabilia, he uses the archetype of a modern
American author to filter loneliness, fading dreams, mental illness, grief,
bemusement, and an endless search for meaning that all but promises
to remain elusive. The book evoked a feeling similar to reading John
Williams' Stoner and Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes. Smart, dark, and
seductively compelling, it reads like a poetic autopsy of the creative
process."
-- Andersen Prunty, author of Neon Dies At Dawn

"A.S. Coomer's Memorabilia is a deeply unsettling monograph of
psychological disturbance. The inscrutability of a friend's suicide, jostled
with Professor Stephen Paul's lacunae nights and days of unmoored
aimlessness, remind us that mental health is often nothing more than a
polite veneer against an ever-degrading society."
-- James Nulick, author of Haunted Girlfriend and Valencia
"Memorabilia doesn't remain in the unconscious. The often unforgiving
livelihood of an adjunct professor, the harsh realities of loneliness,
incarceration, and America's mental health system all make their presence
known throughout the novel. The elastic nature of time and memory
leave you questioning how much is the ranting of a madman, and what
is stark, sad truth."
-- Clifford Brooks, Pulitzer nominated poet & Editor-in-Chief of the
Blue Mountain Review

"A.S. Coomer's Memorabilia is a fragmented journey through the
structures of the mind. Navigating neural pathways in search of source
traumas and psychogenic triggers. When the body is incapacitated, the
mind wanders. Memories become unstable. Memorabilia reorients the
position of the writer, rendering Coomer's Stephen Paul the subject of
jarring and ever-changing narrative threads. Haunted by the poetry of a
time he cannot remember. The images of Memorabilia linger long after
the book's conclusion."
-- Mike Corrao, author of Gut Text