Michael Hickins is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing published by Knopf under Gordon Lish in 1991. His own subsequent adventures include helping his wife run an American eatery in La Rochelle, France, and becoming an editor at The Wall Street Journal. His writing includes an essay on foot fetishism in Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex (Bloomsbury, 2009) and the novel Blomqvist. Excerpts from The What Do You Know Contest have been published in literary magazines such as MonkeyBicycle and Sententia. He has recently released a second edition of Blomqvist as an eBook. |
Blomqvist (2nd Edition)Michael Hickins Axel tells us the story of Blomqvist's search for his betrothed, but in the telling, he also bares his own struggle to find his spiritual footing in a confusing and shifting world. Part historical fiction, part mystical meditation, this Mediterranean odyssey traces the course of human history in matters that are relevant to this day. |