K.B. Dixon

• Jul-2006
• / General Fiction
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"I call and leave a message because I just don't want to see her tonight. There are nights like that, when I don't want to see her-partly because I am who I am and partly because she is who she is. Lately it's been more because she is who she is than...

• Jun-2007
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"Maybe between the two of us we can trick me into being honest with you." A collage of notes written in a sixth-floor men's room, The Sum of His Syndromes is the story of a slightly disturbed young drudge who has found himself at a personal and profe...

• Sep-2008
• / Literary
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"How was my day? I'm trying not to remember." A wry, unconventional character study, Andrew (A to Z) is a sort of mosaic that the reader assembles subconsciously. Focusing on the narrator's family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors, it is the story ...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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K.B. Dixon's work has been described as original, clever, pithy, lyrical, insightful, gonzo, and laugh-out-loud funny. His new novel, A Painter's Life, is a characteristically mischievous oddity. A mix of biographical scraps, journal entries, review ...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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National Indie Excellence Book Award Finalist (Literary Fiction)

The Ingram Interview, K.B. Dixon's unrepentantly quirky new novel, weaves its way interrogatively through the life of Daniel Ingram, a retired, none-too-healthy English professor...

• Dec-2011
• / General Fiction
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"The clichés of beauty are irresistible. It is usually (although I have to concede not always) some sort of affectation to pretend otherwise." A quirky catalogue of imaginary photographs K. B. Dixon's new novel, The Photo Album, is an idiosyncratic ...

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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"Maybe I should take a little time off-not just from my formal fiddling with the epistemological puzzles of narration, but from fiction in general-time off from imaginary people and imaginary experiences. Maybe I should try something 'conventional, '...

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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"Haircut today. Another half-hour with Beth, the stylist, telling me tales of her sullen daughter, Phoebe, and her incontinent Chihuahua, Norman (a depressed and depressing little rescue dog who sleeps curled up in a mouse-colored bed near the shampo...

• Jul-2022
• / General Fiction
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Alan is nothing to them-just so much slop; just meat and molecules, currents and chemical soup. As he zigs and zags, biosensored through a maze, his unique ballet of beef and intention is carefully charted by Dr. Poindexter and his posse of would-be ...