{"title":"Travis Nichols","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"off-we-go-into-the-wild-blue-yonder","title":"Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA novel by Travis Nichols\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eMay 1, 2010 • 6.5 x 8 • 260 pages • 978-1-56689-241-4\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eA picturesque story of modern love, old flames, and the long shadow of history.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArmed only with the address on the back of an old photograph and his grandfather’s memories, a young man launches a mission with his girlfriend to reunite his grandfather, an American WWII pilot, with Luddie, the Polish woman who saved him during the war. Through the grandson’s letters to Luddie, the saga of a family with a long and storied history emerges. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTitled after the U.S. Air Force song, this hypnotic debut explores the legacy of the Greatest Generation from the perspective of Generation Y, the fallout of war through the eyes of a pacifist, and the enduring human desire for love, adventure, truth, and understanding. A tale of soldiers and saviors, of burning and bombing, of fathers and sons and brothers and lovers, this is also the story of what we find when we dare to revisit the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTravis Nichols was born in Ames, Iowa. He attended the University of Georgia and the University of Massachusetts, where he earned an MFA in poetry. He is the author of two collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eIowa \u003c\/em\u003e(Letter Machine Editions) and \u003cem\u003eSee Me Improving\u003c\/em\u003e (Copper Canyon Press), as well as two novels, \u003cem\u003eOff We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe More You Ignore Me\u003c\/em\u003e (Coffee House Press). From 2008 – 2012 he was associate editor of the Poetry Foundation’s website and editor of its blog, \u003cem\u003eHarriet.\u003c\/em\u003e He now works at Greenpeace in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“A rewarding experience. [Nichols’] sentences repeat and sit inside each other as a sort of Greek chorus that resonates through the book.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nichols pulls the readers in . . . with breathtaking immediacy. . . . \u003ci\u003eOff We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e is both original and haunting.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nichols handles beautifully the hidden meanings in old family tales heard a hundred times. . . . The novel often reads like a piece of music that is wonderfully original.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A dramatically off-kilter debut novel about wars and the men who fight them. . . . We see the Bombardier, an elderly Rotarian and former mayor of a small Midwestern town, rediscovering his youthful memories. His grandson’s bewilderment over what to do about the 9\/11 attacks highlights the differences between then and now. There’s a lot of meaty material here.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Travis Nichols locates the \u003ci\u003estory\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003ehistory\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003epistol\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eepistolary\u003c\/i\u003e. This is crushingly great, altogether original debut that reads like an incantation. I dare you to stop reading.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Ed Park\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a beautiful crackpot’s history of America. Travis Nichols takes us on a godly road trip through tobacco, love, and Boom Boom, landing us profoundly still at the world’s loneliest tourist trap. It’s a curious animal version of all those ‘I was looking for’ books because here the animal (the writing) actually changes when it reaches its destination. 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To save her from a terrible mistake, he assumes multiple identities on multiple message boards, sharing, in an extended, epic blog comment, his fears for Charli, his outrage at being thwarted, and the romance, years ago in his analog past, that first attracted his meddlesome care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCranky, hilarious, and incisive, \u003cem\u003eThe More You Ignore Me\u003c\/em\u003e takes on Internet etiquette, the distortions of voyeurism, and the incessant, expansive flow of words that may not be able to staunch loneliness, but holds out the hope of talking it to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTravis Nichols was born in Ames, Iowa. He attended the University of Georgia and the University of Massachusetts, where he earned an MFA in poetry. He is the author of two collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eIowa \u003c\/em\u003e(Letter Machine Editions) and \u003cem\u003eSee Me Improving\u003c\/em\u003e (Copper Canyon Press), as well as two novels, \u003cem\u003eOff We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe More You Ignore Me\u003c\/em\u003e (Coffee House Press). From 2008 – 2012 he was associate editor of the Poetry Foundation’s website and editor of its blog, \u003cem\u003eHarriet.\u003c\/em\u003e He now works at Greenpeace in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vsamn.org\/\"\u003eVSA Minnesota\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired. To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please call (612) 338-0125 or email us at \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@coffeehousepress.org\"\u003einfo@coffeehousepress.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe More You Ignore Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that will not be ignored. Travis Nichols channels the energies of such exemplary screeders past as Gogol’s Poprishchin, Nabokov’s Kinbote, Lish’s Lish, and Nicholson Baker’s woe-beset anthologist, Paul Chowder. Lynksys181, a kind of latter-day Gollum, cries out: ‘I know I have love to give! Who will dare to take it?’ Reader, you should be the one.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With this hilarious and tragic novel, Travis Nichols has captured the menace and pathos and ridiculousness and dead-seriousness of the Internet so well that now I feel a little bit concerned for him. This narrator’s voice will resonate in your mind in unexpected ways forever. You've been warned!” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Gould\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An experimental novel of obsession and violation that makes Nicholson Baker and Mark Leyner look positively banal.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The unhinged narrator of Nichols’s amusing second novel . . . is a self-styled ‘online justice-seeker and truth-teller.’ . . . Nichols writes brawny prose and has an easy touch with humor.’ \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe More You Ignore Me\u003c\/i\u003e, beyond being a farcical joyride of a read, also serves as a critical study of the monopolizing role the internet plays in both fostering and sating the human appetite for connection. . . . In an age in which social life can be lived through a screen entirely, to what extent to we indulge?” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKGB Bar Lit Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In linksys181, Nichols has engaged in a flabbergasting act of literary ventriloquism. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe More You Ignore Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e by way of the Huffington Post.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nichols is brilliant in capturing the wheedling tone, aggravating escalation and stultifying self-involvement of Internet trolls. . . . Raw enough to bring the dark laughter of recognition.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I had never read a novel so innovative, and Nichols wrote a character that still haunts me. I realized I loved it, and recommended it to anyone who came into the bookstore looking for an unconventional read.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Lit Reactor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Travis Nichols’ \u003ci\u003eThe More You Ignore Me\u003c\/i\u003e features two of my favorite literary devices, an unreliable narrator and ambitious, experimental form (the novel is one long blog comment) in one of the year’s most ambitious and thought provoking novels.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLargehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What Mr. Nichols does brilliantly is examine the inner workings of a delusional and grandiose individual . . . on the darker side of the internet: the disconnect that longs deeply for connection, the disparate cry for acknowledgement.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Want a reminder what you can do with fiction? Told entirely as a blog post comment from the perspective of a dude crashing a wedding website, this psychologically-driven novel is what you're looking for.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nichols’ prose especially shines when relating the narrator’s ambitious project . . . Linksys181 may only have found his voice in the digital realm . . . but the ultimate roots of his discontent is something altogether understandable: a desire and passion for meaningful human connection.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNYZZYVA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Ignatius J. Reilly of the Internet age. Prepare yourself for an entertaining read that is funny, creepy, unsettling, sad, and super entertaining.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWORD Bookstore Tumblr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Imagine, for a moment, an Internet troll who writes in complete sentences. Who melds the political fire of a revolutionary with the linguistic precision of a poet. Who peppers his rants with references to Norman Mailer, Buster Keaton, and the Nicaraguan Sandinistas. Do that and you might be able to anticipate the spectacular, deranged protagonist of Travis Nichols’ very funny second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe More You Ignore Me\u003c\/i\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFanzine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There’s something admirable about the way Nichols allows his character the indignity of his prickly tendencies without validating them via sympathetic flashback. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe More You Ignore Me\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that exploring this sense of failure can itself become the basis for art that is as alive as it is bleak.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nichols . . . actually gets the tone and pitch of the troll down pat. This is a stunning book.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Addressing the internet’s ability to unite and divide us at once, magnified by the emboldening power of anonymity and the persuasive gravity of voyeurism, Nichols presents one more serious consideration of personal bias assisted and afflicted by technology.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenver Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The novels’s narrator, ably fashioned by Nichols . . . possesses all of Ahab’s obsessiveness but none of his courage, can best be imagined as Dostoyevsky’s \u003ci\u003eUnderground Man\u003c\/i\u003e with Internet access. . . . Nichols’s book is a contribution to the body of obsessive literature.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHPbeta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43707784526,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1475\/9808\/products\/The-More-You-Ignore-Me.jpg?v=1499211057"}],"url":"https:\/\/coffeehousepress.org\/collections\/travis-nichols-1.oembed","provider":"Coffee House Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}