{"product_id":"acolbs","title":"A Collection for No One to Read, by Ben Shahon","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Shahon’s writing is like binge watching classic Simpsons episodes all night long. Like reading Marvel comic books with your crush under the stars. It's going home after a long day of work and blasting ‘00s pop punk through your speakers. It's avoiding the blue shell in Mario Kart and coming in first place. Which is to say, Ben Shahon’s \u003cem\u003eA Collection for No One to Read\u003c\/em\u003e is a high five straight to the heart, and it’s beautiful.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e–Shawn Berman, Author of \u003cem\u003eMr. Funnyman\u003c\/em\u003e and Editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Drunk\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I love the tone and the rawness. Formality can shove it, I like the truth and I'm tired.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e–wK blair, kith books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThoughts of Taco Bell comfort a college student. A dad hates Disneyland. Corn. A child ruins her school photo. Late Capitalism grinds upon an office drone. The outside world scares a liberated prisoner. Total annihilation befalls a town, one house at a time. A magician receives his comeuppance. A Cyclops lodges a complaint. A beautiful night out that can’t be repeated.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConnected by an absurdist sense of humor and unnerving sense of existential dread, \u003cem\u003eA Collection for No One to Read\u003c\/em\u003e exhibits a sense of play, delivering one literary meme after another. Fed through a variety of forms such as list story, dramatic monologue, and one-sentence tongue twisters, \u003cem\u003eA Collection for No One to Read\u003c\/em\u003e asks questions about parents and children, the monotony of work, and the human condition.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Collection for No One to Read\u003c\/em\u003e is Ben Shahon’s first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBen Shahon is a writer whose work has appeared in a number of journals, including \u003cem\u003eTaco Bell Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Drunk\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. He is the EIC of \u003cem\u003eJAKE\u003c\/em\u003e, holds an MFA in Fiction from Emerson College, and received BA’s in Philosophy and Creative Writing from Arizona State. Ben is deeply grateful for you continuing to read this nonsense, and asks that if you like it, to pass it on to someone else who might.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ben Shahon","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47626195829051,"sku":"ACOLBS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47626195861819,"sku":"ACOLBSe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/readfront.png?v=1704920692","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/acolbs","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}