Charles Jensen | Writer

…for you to read Matt Bell’s The Collectectors, which is now available free via Issu in a special extended version.

Bell’s prose chapbook tells the story of two very strange brothers whose home becomes both a sanctuary of beloved objects and a repository of needless things over the course of their lives. Bell’s short, lyric sections alternate between lists and inventories and brief narrative passages with confidence and ease, braiding the tale page by page.

It was a fun, interesting, and compelling read–and, I hope, a preview of what’s in store when Bell releases his first short story collection in the near future…