Peter Bognanni is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching/Writing Fellowship for his work. His short fiction and humor pieces have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Bellingham Review and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He is a 2008 Pushcart Nominee, and his short story "The Body Eternal" was chosen by Stephen King as one of the "100 Most Distinguished Stories of 2006" in Best American Short Stories. He is currently a Visiting Instructor of Creative Writing at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He once played in a terrible high school punk band.
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marries the visionary with the everyday, the whizbang with the
domestic, and does it with beauty, humor, and love for each one of
its flawed characters. Peter Bognanni remembers all the romance and
awkwardness of teen life and teen music. His first novel is
headlong, hilarious, heartbreaking."
-Elizabeth McCracken
"I adore this book, not only for its ability to love our ludicrous
hearts, but also for the way it makes dividing questions about
whether good literature comes from the heart or the mind seem like
nonsense."
-Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel
"Under the screaming rage of a Misfits or Ramones song, you can
hear a heart beating, and that's where Peter Bognanni gets to
work-his wild and tender book reveals how much a couple of scared
boys can say to each other with a little hateful noise."
-Rob Sheffield, author of Love is a Mix Tape "A geodesic
dome in Iowa: The House of Tomorrow, as its title and
premise promise, marries the visionary with the everyday, the
whizbang with the domestic, and does it with beauty, humor, and
love for each one of its flawed characters. Peter Bognanni
remembers all the romance and awkwardness of teen life and teen
music. His first novel is headlong, hilarious, heartbreaking."
-Elizabeth McCracken
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