As I Was Cutting and Other Nastinesses

From a sociopath with superhuman hearing to a town under siege by anvils, L.V Rautenbaumgrabner’s collection of short stories are both hilarious and downright disturbing. With hints of Jim Thompson, William Faulkner, and Gabriel García Márquez, Rautenbaumgrabner is a new voice for the 21st century. Not for the squeamish, As I Was Cutting and Other Nastinesses takes crime fiction to new levels of grotesqueness.

L.V.’s life trajectory has not quite gone the way he planned, nor does it describe a mainly upwards path, but he did get to wear some interesting pajamas.