

Luminarium
Author: Alex Shakar
Narrator: Charles Carroll
Unabridged: 17 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/01/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Alex Shakar
Narrator: Charles Carroll
Unabridged: 17 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/01/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Alex Shakar’s novel The Savage Girl was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and a Book Sense 76 Pick. His story collection City in Love was selected as an Independent Presses Editors Pick of the Year. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he currently lives in Chicago with his wife, the composer Olivia Block.
Charles Carroll is an actor and voice-over artist residing in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He is an avid film buff and stays active in the local film community.
It seems fitting that Alex Shakar would open his novel, Luminarium, with an invitation. Not your garden variety party invitation, mind you. Something a bit more oblique, less straightforward. But an invitation nonetheless. Picture yourself stepping into a small, cuboid room. In the center squats an......more
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) So before anything else, let me caution my fellow New Weird fans that Chicagoan Alex Shakar's Luminarium is......more
Not sure why I only liked, but not loved Luminarium. The concept was certainly novel. Fusing obviously well-researched neurosciences information with magical realism, we are told the story of one Fred Brounian, doing his best to keep his twin brother George, currently in a coma, alive, while living......more
Doubt is pervasive. So we delude ourselves into certainty. Am I good at my job? Yes, you just got a raise and your performance evaluation was fine. But how does that person know? They've got experience in the field. If someone else had done it, how would I have done? Fine; there are standards to be u......more
I love a big book that just unfolds and unfolds and I can lose myself in it. Luminarium is one of those books that I kept looking up and saying 'God this is great." A mind-altering sparkle-shelled football helmet descends on an ex-dotcom golden boy whose twin brother (the true genius) lies in a NYC......more