Here’s a recording of the Prelude to GLANTZ (you can read the text here), and a bit of a discussion on the evolution of the novel.
“Set against a backdrop of shoddy bars, shoddier streets, and an even shoddier society in slow collapse, GLANTZ traces the movements (and stasis) of its eponymous anti-hero: a figure perpetually on the verge of speech, prayer, and confession, yet caught in a spiral of waiting, repetition, and failed transcendence. In this book, Tobias Ryan delivers a claustrophobic study of inertia, conscience, and the paralytic rituals of everyday life—a novel of failed routines and the stubborn residue of memory.”
You can order a copy of GLANTZ here.
