Description
The genre-defying Hardly Working follows (very) hard-working stiff Caleb through dead-end jobs, meteoric relationships, bodily failures, and collapsing apartments amid the cultural ruins of the Rust Belt with all with his trademark humour and determination to avoid comfortable despair. Among many other felicities, Hardly Working solves the riddle of time, reverse engineers God and garnishes your latte with a hatchet to the forehead.
I shouldn’t even call them days. It suggests an unreal unity. A day lurches from moment to moment and never meets itself. Gone before it arrives, sliding past its seconds. They call them seconds because there’s no firsts; time is imaginary addition, a recounting. The original experience missing.
“As if Graham Greene worked at Denny’s.” -Gil Gildner
“Literary fiction, at the corporate level, has never been less interesting. But that means a whole new generation of sparkling rogues is germinating below. One of them is Caleb Caudell.” -Ross Barkan
Caleb Caudell is the author of The Neighbor (2021) and Novelty and other stories (2023). The Neighbor was shortlisted in the Indiana Author’s Awards 2022. He lives in Indianapolis.
September sale price $21.99 (ends September 30)
Format: Paperback
Page count: 236
ISBN: 978-0-6457768-7-4
