Little is Left to Tell

Readers enter a narrative rabbit hole through bedtime stories that Mr. Fin, a man with dementia, conjures for his long-lost son. Virginia the Wolf writes her last novel to lure her daughter home. A rabbit named Hart Crane must eat words to speak, while passing zeppelins drop bombs. Mr. Fin tries to read the past in marginalia and to rebuild his son from boat parts. The haunting fables in this lyrical first novel trace the fictions that make and unmake us.Steven Hendricks earned his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently lives in Olympia, Washington.

About the Author

Steven Hendricks's work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Web Conjunctions, Fold: The Reader, The Encyclopedia Project (Vol. 2), Sidebrow, and at XCP (archived at PennSound, 2005). He lives in Olympia, WA, with his wife and two children, and teaches writing, literature, and book arts at Evergreen State College. Hendricks is also a practicing bookbinder and letterpress printer. His artists' book work, "Breathing Machine," appears in Lark Books' anthology 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form. He has shown artist book works in galleries across the Pacific Northwest, in Olympia, Portland, and Seattle. His current book arts project is a printing of fragments of Mallarmé's writing about women's fashion in the visual form of his Un coup de Dés. Hendricks earned his MFA in Writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Little is Left to Tell is his first novel.

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