K B Dixon: 8 books

In a new collection of idiosyncratic essays on the subject of photography, Too True, K.B. Dixon offers a close-up look at an enduring fascination. A writer and photographer, Dixon comes at his enigmatic subject from every direction—from the experience of reading Roland Barthes to the question of...

K.B. Dixon's work has been described as original, clever, pithy, lyrical, insightful, gonzo, and laugh-out-loud funny. His new novel, A Painter's Life, is a characteristically mischievous oddity. A mix of biographical scraps, journal entries, review excerpts, and interviews, it is an intimate and introspective...

“Haircut today. Another half-hour with Beth, the stylist, telling me tales of her sullen daughter, Phoebe, and her incontinent Chihuahua, Norman (a depressed and depressing little rescue dog who sleeps curled up in a mouse-colored bed near the shampoo station). Another half-hour of struggling to make...

"The clichés of beauty are irresistible. It is usually (although I have to concede not always) some sort of affectation to pretend otherwise." A quirky catalogue of imaginary photographs K. B. Dixon's new novel, The Photo Album, is an idiosyncratic mix of character study and meditation-a glimpse into...

"How was my day? I'm trying not to remember." A wry, unconventional character study, Andrew (A to Z) is a sort of mosaic that the reader assembles subconsciously. Focusing on the narrator's family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors, it is the story of a quasi-neurotic malcontent on the edge of the edge...

As a rule I have a tendency to be in favor of moderation except when it comes to temperature. Sixty degrees, like it is today, is roughly speaking the climatic equivalent of the middle way. Its blandlike modesty. Its probably my least favorite temperature. Its neither stimulating nor stupefying. Its...

Made up of biographical scraps, journal entries, review excerpts, and interviews, "A Painters Life" is a life told in pieces. It is the life of artist Christopher Freeze and in the course of this "thoughtful and drily humorous" novel (Lydia Millet, for the Oregon Book Awards) we learn about his interests...

Maybe between the two of us we can trick me into being honest with you. A collage of notes written in a sixth-floor men's room, The Sum of His Syndromes is the story of a slightly disturbed young drudge who has found himself at a personal and professional crossroads. There is a job he doesn't want, a...