- Published: 1 March 2022
- ISBN: 9781593767013
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 208
- RRP: $75.00
Pilot Impostor
- Published: 1 March 2022
- ISBN: 9781593767013
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 208
- RRP: $75.00
"Micro essays, flash fictions, prose poems: however you choose to label James Hannaham’s rebuses of posture and imposture, self and anti-self, they are endlessly inventive, thought-provoking, and delightful. Mixing text and image, playfulness and profundity, Pilot Impostor updates the flight manual of shape-shifting twentieth-century masters—Calvino, Borges, Perec—and most of all Fernando Pessoa, poetic champion of identity theft. 'So too in my soul do aircraft vanish'—well now, that’s the type of pilot we’ve been looking for!" —Campbell McGrath, author of Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems
“A funny and compelling meditation on the self and knowledge, authenticity and identity, mortality and chance, Pilot Impostor unfolds in tragic and comic fragments, allusions, and inventions. Unexpected—also beautiful.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, The Refugees, and The Committed
"Hannaham’s book—not quite a novel, not quite a short story collection, not quite like anything else—is a clever series of reflections on art, doubt, race, and impostor syndrome . . . Hannaham continues to be one of the country’s smartest and most surprising writers of fiction . . . Unclassifiable, dizzying, and gorgeous." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A captivating blend of prose and verse . . . Hannaham’s stimulating work moves like a plane in tailspin, tossing off flashes of wisdom as the ground below gets ever closer. It’s a ride worth taking." —Publishers Weekly
“A wild symphony of language, image, and philosophico-political outrage, James Hannaham's Pilot Impostor is a gift to the genre-curious and Genius-averse: gorgeous, brutal, funny, intimate, enraging, cathartic, anti-cathartic, romantic (small-r), and deliriously, entirely itself." —Anna Moschovakis, International Booker Prize-winning translator and poet