Not quite fiction: Stephen-Paul Martin

"Stephen-Paul Martin's not-quite fictions are as 'true' as they are wildly comic and horrifying. They are likely to begin with the most ordinary of situations- X wishes she had Y's brain - and turn the 'natural' on its head. Martin's seeming cool is actually a carefully channeled passion: a profoundly political writer, he plays on myth, legend, press release, and earlier fiction so as to show us what it is we really are. Not Quite Fiction represents Stephen-Paul Martin at his razor-sharp best." - Marjorie Perloff (from book's back cover)