"I’ m warning you. Get out now if the exhilaration of the Literature of Exhaustion makes you do double-takes of your double-takes. Thomas Cotsonas’ s fictions are stunning, stone cold doubled-down articulations of artifice in full riot. The case studies of Nominal Cases asks how does the human brain think about its thinking. Asked and answered in spades. The book reflects reflections and is always on the edge of that edge like those fighter jets designed to be supersonically unstable in the sky in order to out-maneuver gravity itself. I warned you.” -Michael Martone