Dave Fitzgerald Reads Invaginies

The great writer and reviewer Dave Fitzgerald talking about INVAGINIES:

“This gets exponentially harder, however, when it comes to Joe Koch. Not because their voice is unclear, but because it so fiercely resists the tethers of uniform interpretation. No one is exactly what they appear here. In fact, no one is exactly any one thing at all. Rather, these are tales of violative transformation and irreparable transcendence; of cagefights and waxwings; of bodies and Gods. With this writhing, groaning, blood-lubed groupfuck of a collection, Koch has pulled off the seemingly impossible feat of both never doing the same thing twice, and doing everything they could possibly think of all at once. If sexuality is a spectrum, then Joe Koch is a prism. If gender is a construct, then Joe Koch is a destroyer of worlds. You don’t even know yet how much you don’t know.”

Fiction Review: Dave Fitzgerald Reads Joe Koch’s Story Collection Invaginies

If you’ve already pre-ordered, your book should reach you soon. I’ve seen so many wonderful people on my social media say good things about the book that my head is reeling when I think about my first little story I sent out in 2015 when I started writing fiction and compare that to where I am now. Five books and closing in on 100 published short stories & poems, a handful of awards and nominations, and part of a whole writing and reading community that embraces my weirdness.

I’m not sure I ever thought it was possible. I’ve felt on the fringe for most of my life.

And if you’re unaware, I was over age 50 when I started writing, and older still when I came out a few years after that. If you have wishes, dreams, ideals, desires that you’ve been told to eschew, or that you feel you’ve passed the expiration date on, or that just seem too odd or unlikely to attempt, I invite you to say FUCK THAT NOISE and do it.

We really don’t know what the future holds.

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