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7/11 SATURDAY 2PM — Brian Kubarycz - Perdition
Join us the Saturday after July 4th for a reading with a local and professor!
Perdition, Brian Kubarycz’s debut, is a collection where each story, linked or otherwise, focuses not on an action but on a single arresting image – a symbol, in the Romantic sense of the term – an ambiguous vision that emerges despite Kubarycz’s determination to avoid anything that might appear merely sensational. While these stories are decidedly dark and moody, they are never crude nor morbid, and despite their darkness, they do not lack humor, though the laughter tends to come from the balconies. Not wholly noir, gothic, or horror, these stories curate qualities of each genre in the cultivation of a unified and pervasive atmosphere that is equal parts psychological and visceral. Sometimes crescendoing, at other times merely popping, each fiction results in what can only be qualified as terror and the air in each is “filled with the very instant of it.” Singular in theme and surprising in musicality, Perdition is a bright beautiful light that will entrance the reader while bearing down with the force of a train.
Brian Kubarycz is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in a number of national literary journals, including The Quarterly, New York Tyrant, Tarpaulin Sky, Black Warrior Review, Gigantic, PANK, and Unsaid. His collection of stories, Perdition, was published in April of 2026 by Baobab Press. Brian is an associate professor at the University of Utah, where he teaches Intellectual Traditions courses in the Honors College. In addition to teaching and writing, Brian has displayed artwork in local exhibitions and performed and recorded music with various local groups.
Books will be available for purchase.
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