Phillips, Thomas - Interiors (with Alcebiades Diniz)
Small volume of troubled souls.
In the oddly narrated “Pagan Dread”, driver and passenger head into the woods as far as their car will take them. Next, on foot, to a rendezvous with transfiguration.
This reads like a sketch, a pitch, and I wish Phillips had fleshed the narrative more fully.
“Living With Literature” is hardly that. Instead, this is the misery of the teacher or professor, evaluating yet another pretentious, insipid student paper. His voice oozes sarcasm in a tale funny yet barbed.
“Abattoir” explores boundaries. One’s home, and the implied, perhaps wistful assumption, of the safety within one’s home.
Finishing, Diniz offers an overview of the Utopia of Infra-Noir, useful for readers who come across similar publishers who reference this movement, but seldom provide historical details.