The Last Vanishing Man Appears
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May was the month when The Last Vanishing Man appeared in the world. Here's some stuff related to that, some places I've been and places I'm going... First, I will be in Brooklyn two weeks from tonight to read and converse with my friends Franz Nicolay and Hannah Tinti . It's at the Powerhouse Arena on June 14 at 7pm. Tickets are required and available at this link , ranging in price from free general admission to buying a book. Jeff VanderMeer interviewed me for Literary Hub . I was sure the pullquote would be, "I tend to gnaw at the same subject matter again and again until I chew off enough of myself to get out of the trap." But they went with other sentences. Yvonne C. Garrett reviewed the book generously for Brooklyn Rail . "Cheney’s new collection is less the 'horror!' that his publisher hypes and more a combination of wildly post-apocalyptic brutalism and deeply sympathetic studies of people—lost or irreparably harmed by modern life an