Intersections
Stories of Life, Limnity, and the Pursuit of Haplessness
BUOYED by the dizzying international acclaim afforded him as Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, Joel Phillips embarks on his literary career with this, his first actual literary work. Intersections comprises autobiographical short stories seen through a unique lens, one that has been dropped repeatedly. Through its cracks and smudges life’s funny, philosophical, and fantastical moments come into partial focus.
Though Phillips is almost entirely unknown to people who can read, he has been compared with renowned humorists Calvin Trillin and David Sedaris (e.g., “You are no Calvin Trillin” and “There’s just no way you are David Sedaris!”). Others have noted Phillips is younger than Trillin, taller than Sedaris, and can match pitch better than either of these popular storytellers.