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Dictionary Stories
by Jez Burrows
Spend enough time reading the dictionary and you might begin to notice a strange phenomenon: thousands of oddly conspicuous italicized sentences, all of which read like tiny pieces of fiction that got lost and wandered into the wrong book. Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings is a collection of very short stories, each composed entirely of these curious excerpts, otherwise known as example sentences.
In Kolaj #22, Katharine Coldiron wrote about Dictionary Stories:
The premise of Jez Burrows’s first book, Dictionary Stories, is a piquant one: use the sample sentences in the dictionary (actually, multiple dictionaries) to build microfiction that pleases and provokes. Primarily a graphic designer, Burrows is participating in literary collage, which plays by some of the same rules as visual collage. Almost everything in the book comes from a context previously created by someone else, and it is remixed and recontextualized at the author’s whim to make a different kind of sense.
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Dictionary Stories
by Jez Burrows
7.125″x4.5″, 256 pages
paperback, illustrated
ISBN: 978-0-0626-5261-4
$21 Canada and $16.99 US
Harper Perennial, New York, New York, 2018
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