Forum (Novel, Tailwinds Press, 2022)

Josh Wardrip's debut novel, published March 15, 2022, by Tailwinds Press (204 pp., ISBN:‎ 9781735601663). Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. Copies ordered here will be signed.

“Truly relentless—quite unlike anything I’ve read.”
—John Trefry, author of Plats

“Shades of Jerzy Kosinski meets Michel Houellebecq at J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise…. Hats off to Wardrip for his daring. An impeccable debut.”
—Richard Peabody, editor of Gargoyle Magazine

“Long arcs of memory dissolve and return to form a thrumming dissonance that holds Forum together, injecting it with life and momentum.… [A] deeply mood-driven work [that] is, in some way, a return to that ideal of Flaubert and J.K. Huysmans, a return to the novel without a plot.”
—Colorado Review

“Wrought with eerie, chilling tension…. This doesn’t feel like a debut novel; rather, Forum feels like Denis Johnson, like Camus, like a fearless writer feeding off an urgency to venture far and wide. You won’t have read a book like this.”
—Bradford Philen, author of When the Color Started