Expanding Frontiers: Robert Guffey
Outspoken author Robert Guffey joins host Erica Lukes live Friday, January 13, 7pm EST
Robert Guffey is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University – Long Beach. His most recent books are the Wonderland Award-nominated collection, WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION AND OTHER WEIRD CRIMES (Eraserhead Press, 2021), the Rondo Award-nominated novel BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD (Crossroad Press, 2021), and OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP (OR Books, 2022), which Alan Moore described as "jaw-dropping and essential."
Guffey’s previous books include the darkly satirical, apocalyptic novel UNTIL THE LAST DOG DIES (Night Shade/Skyhorse, 2017), which bestselling novelist Adam-Troy Castro called "one of the great books of the year," the journalistic memoir CHAMELEO: A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY OF INVISIBLE SPIES, HEROIN ADDICTION, AND HOMELAND SECURITY (OR Books, 2015), which Flavorwire called, “By many miles, the weirdest and funniest book of 2015,” the novella collection SPIES & SAUCERS (PS Publishing, 2014), and CRYPTOSCATOLOGY: CONSPIRACY THEORY AS ART FORM (TrineDay, 2012).
A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he has written for numerous publications, among them The Believer, The Evergreen Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mailer Review, Phantom Drift, Postscripts, Rosebud, Salon, and TOR.com.