Chris Vola: 4 books

Whether you love Game of Thrones or Seinfeld, all television fans have one shared experience—the truly unique and devasting loss that comes from a dear character being written off a show before you—or any of us—had the chance to say goodbye. Here to give us closure is talented humorist...

A vampire who is confined to Brooklyn gives up his immortality to save the human love of his life and unknowingly wades into a much larger supernatural conspiracy. Ryan Driggs has lived in Brooklyn for 128 years, 96 of them as one of the last members of a tribe of blood-eating immortals who...

Chris Vola is the author of Monkeytown, a novel. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, Monkeybicycle, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Paste Magazine, and elsewhere. A former contributing books editor at The Brooklyn Rail and chapbook reviewer at Short, Fast, and Deadly, he lives in New York and can be found at smalldrunkencog.blogspot.com.

A man decides to transform himself into a bird to escape his phone-wielding, formaldehyde-scented girlfriend. A professional clipboarder spends her days enduring the humiliation cast upon her by potential donors and her nights conjuring visions of the Appalachian Trail. A streaming video epiphany...