From CRAFT:
We’re thrilled to provide a preview of Philip Anderson’s Landing in Andonia, the grand-prize winner of the CRAFT 2024 Novelette Print Prize, guest judged by Hanna Pylväinen. In her foreword for the book, Pylväinen calls the novelette “postmodern plight made anew” and praises Anderson’s “portentous, dissecting light.” Landing in Andonia is an exciting, innovative novelette of the kind that can’t be read elsewhere.
Praise for Landing in Andonia:
“Landing in Andonia is a sharp-eyed, deeply felt and deeply unsentimental excursion into the life of town and some of its people. Put it on the shelf beside other innovative fictions about the middle of America like The End of Vandalism and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. Philip Anderson is a writer of exacting vision, sublime perversity, and surprising warmth. He’s also very funny.”
— Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask
“To read Landing in Andonia is to be delighted by language, to allow yourself to be swept into Philip Anderson’s masterfully crafted fever dream of a novelette. Playful in form, with laugh-out-loud dialogue and moments of surprising tenderness—I’ll read anything Anderson puts in front of me.”
— Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl