“Jim Ruland’s stories are dangerous things, full of grim human comedy. His sentences power along with raucous precision and his characters rarely fail to surprise. This is a wonderful debut.” --Sam Lipsyte
"Here's a writer with guts and heart and vision, someone to remind us of the possibilities of fiction. Big Lonesome is strange and exciting." --Chris Bachelder
Big Lonesome
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"People involved in creative work, if they're lucky, they feel they hand themselves over to the course of something else, to the creation of something they're not entirely responsible for. We look back upon it as if it's an experience had almost by someone else." --Daniel Day Lewis
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