Luke B. Goebel is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Tyler, USA. He worked as an editor with a NYC-based literary journal and independent publishing house.
"If Kerouac were writing today, his work might look something like
this--and despite the title, many of the stories are indeed ours,
as they focus on love and loss, pain and yearning.... This is a
fierce, untamed, riotous book--and from the first page you'll know
you're not reading Jane Austen."--Kirkus
"...[I]t is apparent that Goebel has announced himself as a proud
new talent and of stronger voice than most of the writers, bless
them, working to further the forms of the novel."
--Southeast Review
"Goebel's tour de force swiftly seduced me, and I set aside my own
experience in order to ride his loop out past the farther planets
and back to the heart's interior."
--Brooklyn Rail "Goebel is clearly a very talented writer, and his
experiment in this collection is noble."
--Publishers Weekly
"Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours (Fiction
Collective Two) is a thunderous, fantastical debut
novel."--Interview "...the pleasures of Fourteen Stories, None of
Them Are Yours come so fast and frequent you'll even overlook that
there are, actually, only thirteen stories in the table of
contents."--Electric Literature "It's a book I carried around for
weeks and whose pages, which I often returned to again and again,
are rippled, dog-eared, and covered in ink and underlines."--The
Rumpus
"About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of
Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my
forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing
down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's
testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of
private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and
intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right
to wield."--Blake Butler, author of Nothing and Scorch Atlas "I
would call this, fey as it sounds, 'American bard yawp, ' not so
much concerned with what it means as whether I have stolen it or
not, and I would hazard that this Luke Goebel feller, if we may
pretend for a itty bit the word is not exactly pejorative, is
'insane.' We have here the fine coherence of the not-deliberately
incoherent, a proud-standing mess, like a Faulkner mess. It's after
the 'the giant American heart' that Kerouac and Kesey were after in
their Neal Cassidys, you have Burroughs and Bukoswki rants, Ashbery
misconnections, Hannah whiskey whistling, and spinning up from it
once in a while the fist of the perfectly put. If this is a work of
non-fiction, it is a miracle that its author is alive. If it is
fiction, it is the miracle. By my eye, it is not made up. It is
received, has been done to its author, like a beating, and he is
not unhappy at how he's taken the beating."--Padgett Powell,
Whiting Writers' Award winner and author of Edisto and You Me"I'm
in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to
take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words.
Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on
fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the
trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond
ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left.
There's a reason to go on."
--Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Dora: A
Headcase
"Luke may be one of the last few geniuses we have left in this
life. I mean that. He's a good boy with a lot of pain in his
heart."
--Scott McClanahan, author of Crapalachia and Hill William "The
protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn't
make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis
Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting
as yet another damaged romantic who thinks it's always time to play
the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He can't see right, and
he's haunted by nearly everything. He's trying to open up or shut
himself down or at least get a hold of himself. He's trying to make
do with what he's done, while he reminds us that we're all, one way
or another, in that position."
--Jim Shepard, National Book Award finalist and author of the short
story collections You Think That's Bad and Like You'd Understand,
Anyway
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