UXA.GOV

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I once woke from surgery to find that a faulty spinal catheter had kept painkillers from getting into me: Blake Butler's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 85 204 1)>UXA.GOV</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> brought this memory back. The book's a shock to the system a storehouse of what you'll see and hear when it's your turn to hurt and hallucinate-it's visceral inventively so and visionary and filled with a feeling of inevitability. I found it both soothing and sick a palliative in reverse.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Derek McCormack</p>