TODAY IS THE DAY THAT WILL MATTER

“No one else writes about the current social climate with the badass gusto of Debra Di Blasi. No one! Politically incorrect, seriously playful, often shocking, incorrigible in all the right ways, self-indicting, yet devastatingly human, Di Blasi's prose grabs contemporary culture by the throat and holds on in a dazzling stranglehold where the 'I' of the shitstorm is 'you.'”
— Aimee Parkison, Winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, and author of Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman

“Will the world end with a whimper or a bang? Debra Di Blasi’s TODAY IS THE DAY THAT WILL MATTER gives us a compelling third option: It will end in a whir of pronouncements, gossip, apologies, braggadocio, and the rest of the nonstop human noise we call culture.... Di Blasi's compressed prose and linguistic play result in a jack-in-the-box kind of release found in good poetry. This is a writer in full control of language, from regional idiom to scientific jargon.... Despite our desire to escape the metaphysical and environmental catastrophes we've long wrought by now flirting with the concept of a human-robot future, Di Blasi reminds us elegantly and ferociously exactly where our human actions have placed us.”
—Leslie McGrath , Winner of the Pablo Neruda Prize, and author of Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives

“Readers beware: This hilarious and moving book is not a safe space. Di Blasi's TODAY IS THE DAY THAT WILL MATTER: An Oral History of the New America: #AlternativeFictions is a fierce and real-time live-stream pastiche that inhabits voices and points-of-view of our new “American” multi-tude. Terrifyingly sincere and aching with loss one moment, angry, cruel, even bigoted the next, Di Blasi's anti-Whitmanian universe expands and collapses into every imaginable corner of what our world has become, to salvage true moments out of this white noise at the penetralia of our virtual hornet's nest, in which bodies have somehow come alive, ‘crawled right out of the trashbin of history into the light of public office.’ How it smokes and hums with danger!”
— Sam Witt, Winner of the Cleveland State University Press Open Book competition, and author of Little Domesday Clock

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