Pseudo-City

infobox Book |
name = Pseudo-City


author = D. Harlan Wilson
cover_artist = Brandon Duncan
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Irrealism, Bizarro, Postmodernism novel
publisher = Raw Dog Screaming Press
release_date = 2005
media_type = Print
pages = 226 pp
isbn = ISBN 1-933293-02-0
preceded_by = Stranger on the Loose
followed_by = Dr. Identity

"Pseudo-City" (2005) is the third book by American author D. Harlan Wilson. Referred to as a novel as often as a collection of stories -- Wilson himself has called it a "story-cycle" -- it contains twenty-nine irreal short stories and flash fiction that overlap and feature recurrent characters. Pieces in this collection originally appeared in magazines and journals such as "Albedo one, The Dream People, Red Cedar Review", "Nemonymous", "Milk Magazine" and "Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens".

Cover Description

In Pseudofoliculitis City nothing is as it seems and everything is as it should be. Today's forecast calls for extreme confrontation, with sandwich flurries and the threat of handlebar moustaches to the west. By turns absurd and surreal, dark and challenging, "Pseudo-City" exposes what waits in the bathroom stall, under the manhole cover and in the corporate boardroom, all in a way that can only be described as mind-bogglingly irreal. Set in an imaginary, "post-real" metropolis, this book delivers a hauntingly satirical version of our own mediatized reality.

Table of Contents

*Pseudofolliculitis City
*Hairware, Inc.
*Synchronicity III
*The Rorschach-Interpreter
*Portrait of the Founder
*The Meeting
*The Thumb
*Extermination
*Dandies & Flâneurs
*Classroom Dynamics
*In the Bathroom
*The Widow’s Peaks
*Duel
*Deli
*Intermezzo
*Bourgeois Man
*Cereal Killers
*Fascists
*The Autopsy
*Protractor Men
*Haberdashery
*The Personalities
*The Other Pedestrian
*PCP
*The Snore
*The Kitchen
*When The Law Has Spoken
*The Stick Figure
*Horoscope

External links

* [http://www.dharlanwilson.com Official D. Harlan Wilson Website]
* [http://www.sfreader.com/read_review.asp?book=633 Review by Susie Hawes] at [http://www.sfreader.com/ SFReader.com]
* [http://www.mytholog.com/reviews/mann_pseudo.html Review by Mary Pat Mann] at [http://www.mytholog.com/ Mytholog]
* [http://www.rawdogscreaming.com/PDFs/PCQuestions.pdf Study Guide for "Pseudo-City"]
* [http://www.theroseandthornezine.com/Spring06/Wilsoninterview.htm Interview with Wilson] at Rose & Thorn Magazine