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praise
Head in Flames has set a new standard for the social consciousness of postmodern narrative.
—Rain Taxi
Lance Olsen has written an important book. Important because it manages to succeed where most innovative literature fails: it plays while being deadly serious. The structure is a tour de force of formal innovation calling to mind Pinget's That Voice, Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, and Cortázar's Hopscotch.
—Review of Contemporary Fiction
Recalling the radically condensed novels of David Markson, the fragmented storytelling of Alain Robbe-Grillet, and the high-velocity jump cuts of an action movie—or maybe an MTV music video—Head in Flames is the rare novel that satisfies equally as an exploration of personality, character, novelistic form, and narrative potential.
—The Quarterly Conversation
about the author
Lance Olsen is author of many books of and about innovative fiction. His stories and essays have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, Black Warrior Review, Hotel Amerika, Denver Quarterly, and Best American Non-Required Reading. An N.E.A. Fellowship and Pushcart Prize recipient, he teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.
