Joshua Bouchard

 

Joshua Bouchard is a writer of poetry and fiction residing in Ottawa, Ontario. His works have been featured in magazines such as What If?, Haggard and Halloos, Breadcrumb Scabs, DITCH,, Thieves Jargon, and Right Hand Pointing. He has self-published one collection of poetry, What Remembering Says Not To, and is currently working on a novella, titled Buses.

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Sunday
Mar062011

Novel: "The Average American Male" by Chad Kultgen (America)

Beyond the surface of social sensibilities there lays within us all an interior monologue of thoughts that are so genuine and unfiltered that to utter them into words would be social suicide.

Chad Kultgen, in his novel The Average American Male, takes these monologues and dares to transcribe them through the perspective of (yes, you’ve guessed it) a nameless average American male with an average job in an average relationship.  Although this late twenty-something man’s life teeters tediously on the fence of mediocrity, there is nothing quite average about this novel.

 

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