Eric Mader

Minor Scratches Eric Mader

Essays on expat life in Taiwan, short tales, much ado about a glowing crow, and more make up this new collection from expat Eric Mader.

Readers who were tickled or infuriated by his last collection Idiocy, Ltd. will be tickled or infuriated again.

With submissions by Paul Wylie, Ryan Tsai, M. K. Getgood, ???, Max Yawney, Ullrich Langer, Mr. Who Dat Blues, ????, Kristin Mader, ???, ??? and Josh.

Mader is ... an endlessly fascinating eccentric, and absolutely everything he puts his hand to is very well worth reading. --Bradley Winterton, Taipei Times

On Idiocy, Ltd.

Eric Mader shows a sure hand in balancing satire, spoof, and twilight-zone weird, revealing hints of Kafka, Borges, and other worthies.--Duncan Chesney, Prof. of Comparative Literature, National Taiwan University

Entertaining and stimulating, demanding and rewarding ... Each text is a linguistic, or literary, or cultural event, something performed or enacted in one or multiple domains of discourse. --Hugh Hochman, Prof. of French at Reed College, Oregon