N.J. Campbell was born in the Midwest. He has won the Little Tokyo Short Story Contest, received accolades from the California State Legislature, and has been anthologized in the collection American Fiction from New Rivers Press. Found Audio is his first novel.
*A Best Book of 2017 --Writer's Bone
Danni Green of Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY, loves to read
and lift up books by small presses. She's a big fan of the printed
novella Found Audio... "I think it's really great for people who
like things like House of Leaves," says Green. "It's kind of a
novel-within-a-novel... that's telling you about this bizarre
thing. Did it happen? Did it not happen?" Green recommends this
book for people who want a creepy, but not terrifying, read.
Emily Bright, Minnesota Public Radio (Nov. 11, 2022)
"Ask a Bookseller: Found Audio is a creepy fall read" "A
deceptively slim book, toying with fictionality, trots the
globe."
Publishers Weekly's, "Writers to Watch""Found Audio is a Nabokovian
novel in the best possible sense of the word... an emotionally
resonant literary mystery for folks who aren't afraid to follow the
rabbit down the hole."
--Jason Jefferies, Staff Pick, Quail Ridge Books (Raleigh, NC)"In
his debut, Campbell has written a page-turner, an onion peel of a
story surrounding nothing less than the central questions of human
existence. The reader is led down a rabbit hole and back out again,
confused, afraid, but nevertheless also ever so slightly amused.
This is a weird little book full of momentum, intrigue, and weighty
ideas to mull over."
--Publishers Weekly"N.J. Campbell's Found Audio is the new
Pandora's Box of weird contemporary fiction... Like VanderMeer's
stunning trilogy [Southern Reach], Campbell captures the darkness
of the unknown."
--Nick Sweeney, Heavy Feather Review"The novel is genius... simple,
spare, and amazingly effective."
--Shana Creaney, Foreword Reviews"Found Audio by N.J. Campbell is a
Russian nesting doll of a novel with layers of mystery, mythology,
madness, and suspense... The novel is a brilliant work of
metafiction, and the story within the story is as irresistible as
gossip from a friend of a friend."
--Many Shunnarah, Pank Magazine"A wicked metafictional mystery
[and] dizzying epistolary novel about dreams, perception, and the
human psyche."
--Kirkus Reviews"Found Audio is steeped in a wonderfully creepy
atmosphere that sucks the reader in and doesn't let go for the
duration of the weird, dark, dreamlike ride... If you like novels
that keep you glued to the pages and constantly rethinking where
the story, the main character, and even reality are going next,
then make sure you don't skip this one."
--Gabino Iglesias, LitReactor"Brilliant. In an age of instant
information access, Found Audio is a clever reminder that some
places, experiences, and mysteries must be earned through sweat,
blood, and fear."
--Adam Morgan, Electric Literature"Amid the static of contemporary
literature can be heard blips of fiction-future in N.J. Campbell's
defiantly bold Found Audio."
--Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville"[A] mysterious work of
metafiction... dizzying, arresting and defiantly bold."
--Laura Pearson, Chicago Tribune, The Ultimate Summer Reading
List"[Found Audio] stretches language, remakes structure, plots
boldly, all while having its own peculiar kind of fun...
catapulting us into fascinating new territory for fiction to
inhabit."
--M. K. Rainey, 3: AM Magazine"This strange little book, full of
momentum, intrigue, and weighty ideas to mull over, is a bona fide
literary page-turner."
--Publishers Weekly, "Best Summer Books, 2017""Short but powerful,
the novel is filled with everything a reader yearns for. There's
action and adventure, mystery and intrigue, and even deep questions
about human existence."
--Books and Palettes"Though it deals with nothing less than the
meaning of existence, the nature of reality, and ultimately, a
search for the legendary "City of Dreams," which has haunted the
lives of writers and philosophers for centuries, Found Audio is
also great fun... A novel that is fresh, often charming, and full
of insights into the need for a City of Dreams and what these
dreams represent for us all."
--Mary Whipple Reviews
"A wild, wonderful creature: part Borges, part VanderMeer, part
forgotten '70s psychedelic action movie. Convincing, complex, and
emotionally resonant--this is a book not to be missed."
--Christian Kiefer, author of The Infinite TidesWriters to Watch
Fall 2017: Anticipated Debuts
--Daniel Lefferts, Publishers Weekly"To suggest that this author's
near maddening and mystic debut will "take you places" is an
understatement. You may emerge from the gauntlet of its layered
mysteries with a definite air of perplexity, though no more so than
the narrator, an adventure journalist passionately chasing an ever
elusive utopia of sorts. As his obsession with this location of
wonders intensifies, so does his perception of its validity,
leading him to scrutinize the very existence of everyone and
everything around him. This novel meticulously shrouds its own
destination in a provocative fog from the outset and, with casual
finesse, pulls the reader into sharing the wonders and inevitable
horrors of confronting the plasticity of reality."
--Patrick Battle, The Book Table
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