You-Gin One-Gin

"In this hilarious tripartite Robinsonian cruise of metaleptic abracadabra, the authorial attributee of You-Gin One-Gin is at his novelistic best, chasing and transforming Pushkin, Nabokov, Philip K. Dick, Vonnegut, John Barth, and Shakespeare in the manner so obscurely familiar from his Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia and Insecticide." -Ivan Delazari, Nazarbayev University

Who is shooting people in Liberal, Kansas, and why are the bullets mainly mystical rounds? What really happens the second time an American writer is abducted by aliens? How would Vladimir Nabokov have rewritten the book his ghost helps narrate?

You-Gin One-Gin answers these questions across three wildly inventive layers: a stage adaptation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, the narration of Kip Knurl, African-American theater professor at Liberal State University, and the surreal perspective of Nabokov's ghost. Each section ends with a "shooting"-in the play, on campus, and in ghostly metafiction-though no one truly dies.

A genre-defying ride for lovers of absurdist humor, experimental narrative, and the exhilarating intersections of literature, science, and the supernatural.

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"The prose is conversational and alert, often wryly funny, and comfortable moving between high literary references and everyday speech. You-Gin One-Gin rewards readers who like catching allusions, but it doesn't require specialized knowledge to follow the action." - Carol Thompson for Readers' Favorite

"Energetic and fast-paced, You-Gin One-Gin maintains a rehearsal room vitality that keeps the reader moving through its increasingly complex layers. Robinson maintains a conversational and alert momentum throughout the narrative." - Elizabeth Stargiotti for Independent Book Review

"You-Gin One-Gin: Sort of a Novel is a strange, clever, and self-aware book that lives somewhere between literary metafiction, campus novel, and sports novel." - Literary Titan

"Real-life author Robinson is clearly having a ball as he gleefully constructs a postmodern roller coaster. He loops between deep comparative-literature questions and slapstick absurdities, such as medically impossible wounds and a violent football game between competitors dressed in lingerie." - Kirkus Reviews