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BUILDINGS WITHOUT MURDERS
Novel. Published by Atmosphere Press (March 1, 2020). 240 pages. Paperback. Design by Nick Courtright. Trailer video by Gabriela Bulisova and Mark Isaac. Available for purchase at the Atmosphere Press web site, Bookshop.org, Amazon (paperback and Kindle), and Barnes & Noble (paperback and Nook). In my base-town of Washington, D.C., the book is available at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue and Bridge Street Books on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Advance Anti-Praise:
Dan Gutstein lives in the future and has returned from then to give you this book, now. —Matthew Salesses, author of The Hundred Year Flood
Our future is increasingly blurry and Dan Gutstein and his work may well be part of it. —Cathy Wagner, author of Of Course
A bookshelf without Dan Gutstein is like a building without murders—perfectly serviceable, but not as haunted as it could be. That’s why you should probably get Buildings Without Murders and put it on your bookshelf. —Kathleen Rooney, author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Gutstein thinks questions are the answer, in a format full of unpleasant surprises, but he’s super into this randomization kind of thing. —Terence Winch
Never let it be said that Dan Gutstein didn’t do the least he could do – and with this novel he’s done it again! —Angie Kim, author of Miracle Creek
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllll! —Rod Smith, author of Deed
Buildings Without Murders is lightning verbiage and wit, violence, love, and mourning in a wild future haunted by the crackle and hope of the God-booths, that singularly touching Gutstein response (or not) to the mortal coil. —Patricia Saraffian Ward, author of Skinner Luce
Dan Gutstein’s last legitimate job was writing fortune cookie fortunes in a damp basement off Canal. A customer got one that said “You Could Be Eating Korean, (lucky number 43),” after which he began sleeping rough under the shrubbery. —Chris Whittey (Dan’s former boss), Alan F. Rothschild Distinguished Chair of Art, Columbus State University