Mike Meginnis was named one of "the year's most impressive debut novelists" by the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival. He has published stories in Best American Short Stories 2012, The Collagist, PANK, and many others. He contributes regularly to HTML Giant and Kill Screen, and plays collaborative text adventures at exitsare.com. He earned his MFA at New Mexico State University, where he served as a managing editor of Puerto del Sol for two years. He now lives and works in Iowa City, where he operates Uncanny Valley Press with his wife, Tracy Rae Bowling. He has never seen the ocean.
"Impressive. . . The novel straddles a hybrid genre of historical
magical realism." —The Japan Times
"Meginnis's talent is his ability to make the reader feel empathy
for souls who killed so many. . . Many pages in this novel feel
like engravings . . . Meginnis has written one of the best, most
natural novels about the atomic bombs." —Nick Ripatrazone, The
Millions
"[An] imaginative debut. . . Meginnis' story is both surprising and
incisive." —Publishers Weekly
Named one of "the year's most impressive debut novelists" by the
2014 Brooklyn Book Festival
"An imaginative and surprisingly intimate look at the consequences
of our actions and the costs of war." —Library Journal
"In his inventive and fabulist debut novel Fat Man and Little Boy
Mike Meginnis lends a surprisingly human dimension to the atomic
bombs dropped on Japan during World War II." —Largehearted Boy
"Throughout Fat Man and Little Boy, Meginnis's language is luminous
and disarmingly spare, whether he is invoking a naturalist moment
or a fantastical metamorphosis." —Necessary Fiction
"Beguiling, strange, and strangely lovely, Fat Man and Little Boy
is a deeply sorrowful yet mysteriously empowering debut."—Patrick
deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers
"Only someone with the deftness of heart of a writer like Mike
Meginnis could redefine the war novel into something like Fat Man
and Little Boy, a book which translates our basic world of
never–ending terror into a highly nuanced and inventive diorama
available absolutely nowhere else."—Blake Butler, author of Scorch
Atlas and There is No Year
"Mike Meginnis is my favorite kind of writer—extraordinarily
inventive, formally curious, profoundly moving—and his Fat Man and
Little Boy is a debut of impressive ambition, a reinvention of the
historical novel, an existential thriller powered by the booming
engines of history, the atom, the human heart." —Matt Bell, author
of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
"In Fat Man and Little Boy, Mike Meginnis takes the mother of all
atrocities and makes it strange, sizable, turns it so sideways that
we're forced to notice, to take heed. This alone is an achievement,
but it's the way he does it that dazzles—with gorgeous, careful
prose that gives us human failings and a desperate longing for
connection so vividly rendered that we have no choice but drink it
in, to reckon once again with this disaster in our own time and
way."—Amber Sparks, author of The Desert Places and May We Shed
These Human Bodies
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