The Easy Chain

The second novel by Evan Dara

Paperback
6" x 9"
502 pages

"One of the best novels of the decade... The magic of his writing and what he accomplishes through it is...manifested in how mesmerizing, hypnotic and just plain readable Evan Dara is." —The Quarterly Conversation

"Recalls David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: both books offer a jigsaw puzzle of different styles, and construct a remarkably clever and complex plot with many mysteries embedded for the reader to discover after multiple readings." —American Book Review, Stephen J. Burn

"It's good to know that writers like Dara exist, capable of bravely carrying the flame... [with this] very intricately crafted and grandly conceived postmodern novel." —The Review of Contemporary Fiction

"If there is any literary justice [The Easy Chain] will appear sometime around 2050 in a New York Review of Books Classics edition with a forward by the aging Dave Eggers." —Conversational Reading

—So what's the book about?
—It about this British guy who goes to The University of Chicago—?
—Nah. And it really isn't about his getting this, like, social illness—
—The one where... Come on: it's impossible to become allergic to lying—
—Exactly - the book isn't about that at all...

The Lost Scrapbook

A novel by Evan Dara

"A vast accomplishment." —Richard Powers

"An encyclopedic masterpiece that invites comparisons to the big books of postmodernism." —American Book Review, Stephen J. Burn, author of "David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader’s Guide"

"Powerful, hysterically funny, and evocative... Stretches the boundaries of what novels can be and mean." —The Los Angeles Reader

Chosen by William T. Vollmann as the winner of
FC2's National Fiction Competition

The Lost Scrapbook is arguably the most highly praised, but least known, American debut of the last several decades. Originally published by a non-commercial house, the novel received exactly one review in the mainstream media. But that review called The Lost Scrapbook the most accomplished first novel since William Gaddis' The Recognitions, from 1955.

Since then, The Lost Scrapbook has garnered exceptional acclaim, in particular from alternative magazines and from readers' groups on the internet.

The Lost Scrapbook is a story of the shattering of community in modern America — and a vision of reconstitution.

Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
476 pages