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Tricks of Light
"Tricks of Light" is the breathtaking new poetry collection from award winning writer Thaddeus Rutkowski. Under the clear and steady lines, with spare, precise imagery, these poems pulse with the competing urges of love and loneliness.
Guess and Check
Guess and Check is a Giron/Valdez Series for Unique Voices in Literature Book "A stark, engrossing, Hemingway-esque portrait of a life spent in the margins." -Kirkus Reviews " . . . tough and funny and touching and harrowing." -John Barth
Haywire
Fiction. Asian American Studies. Thaddeus Rutkowski's deadpan, darkly funny third novel is comprised of 49 unsentimental stories narrated by the son of a Polish-American artist father and a Chinese-American mother. A bildungsroman with unexpected twists, the narrative spirals out from the insular life of a biracial teenager into a surrealistic, giddy page-turner once the narrator's obsessive fetishism begins to develop, and the reader is pulled along by the nose ring through a heady combination of literary and voyeuristic appeal. Our narrator eventually learns to get along with, even love, the people around him, but the feeling doesn't come easily. John Barth has called Rutkowski's work "tough and funny and touching and harrowing," and Alison Lurie has said that "Rutkowski is one of the most original writers in America today. Once you've read his low-key, continually surprising fiction, the world will look different to you--maybe just for an hour, maybe forever."
Border Crossings
Border Crossings is Thaddeus Rutkowski's first full-length collection of poetry. The "crossings" of the title are both geographical and psychological. In some of the poems, the speaker travels from one country to another. In others, he moves from one state of mind to another. His topics are his rural childhood and Asian heritage, his adult life in New York City, and his relation (throughout his journeys) to people, animals and nature. All of these short, first-person poems shed light on these topics through vivid, accessible language. Rutkowski strikes chords by describing experiences we've all had. In Border Crossings, Thaddeus Rutkowski collects an engrossing narrative of one-page poems th...
Tetched
An edgy, minimalist style, Tetched presents a darkly comedic picture of difficult family life, quirky sexuality and urban dislocation.
Roughhouse
Roughhouse gives a harrowingly deadpan account of the tedium, casual violence and deviant sex that connect a surreal, semi-rural childhood with adult urban neurosis. Terse flashes of narrative, told from the point of view of a troubled youth, provide a stark sketch of an American family on the brink: a gun-toting father prone to inexplicable rages; a mother who speaks in ineffectual, half-remembered Chinese homilies; siblings rendered almost mute from excessive bleakness. And there's the narrator himself, who responds to the torment of home and neighborhood bullies with increasingly aberrant behavior, including sexual bondage and a form of pyromania that requires placing a paper bag over one...
Haywire
Fiction. Asian American Studies. Thaddeus Rutkowski's Haywire is deadpan, darkly funny novel comprised of 49 wry vignettes, tautly toldby the son of a Polish-American artist father and a Chinese-American mother. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, the novel spirals out from the insular life of a biracial teenager into a surrealistic, giddy page-turner once the narrator's obsessions and fetishes fetishism grow, and the reader is pulled along by the nose ring through a rollicking combination of literary and voyeuristic appeal. Our narrator ultimately learns to live and love, the people around him. John Barth has called Rutkowski's work "tough and funny and touching and harrowing," and Alison Lurie has said that "Rutkowski is one of the most original writers in America today. Once you've read his fiction, the world will look different to you--maybe just for an hour, maybe forever."
Violent Outbursts
Thaddeus Rutkowski's flash collection skirts the edge of psychological revelation, with hints of darker meaning coursing below the surface like a pike in a goldfish pond. This is a slyly comic and deeply honest account of the pleasures and discomforts of life as an outsider in contemporary America. Max Blagg, author of Slow Dazzle
Winter's Vindication
In these nine stories of frost and snow, join a collection of survivors as they fight to overcome nuclear winter, 100 years of ice, elder gods, frozen deities, a town ruled by thugs, and more. This premier anthology from SummerStorm press features the writing of C. Marry Hultman, Christine Watts, Erin Fanning, Thaddeus Rutkowski, John M. Floyd, David Green, Derek Power, Louise Pierce, and Abigail Linhardt. “For I Hear You Calling” by C. Marry Hultman When Told wakes to find herself stranded on the frozen shores of the icy north she must battle the elements and the unknown in order to make it back to her child. “For Humanity” by Christine Watts The humans were all supposed to die by t...
Fish Town
"Approaching 30 and disillusioned with life in Glasgow, I sold everything I had and left for a new life in a remote fishing village in Japan. I knew nothing of the language or the new land that I would call home for the next seven years."
