christopher robinson
Christopher Robinson is a Boston University and Hunter College MFA graduate, a MacDowell Colony fellow, Yaddo fellow, and a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist. He is the co-author, with Gavin Kovite, of War of the Encylopaedists, which the New York Times called "captivating," and Deliver Us, a Foreword Indies Book of the Year finalist. He also serves as an Innocence Network Ambassador.
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Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Finalist, 2018.
Comically absurd and painfully real, DELIVER US is a prescient and provocative literary novel that moves swiftly through near-future Detroit as a black social-media activist leads a campaign against Amazon, whose new fleet of delivery drones offers rebirth to the blighted city while threatening to magnify existing racial inequalities.
"Deliver Us is a wild, funny, ridiculous and yet deeply serious novel that imagines a near future in which class, commerce, race, technology, and our ever evolving social politics intersect, and explode. Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite are always inventive, always captivating, and always deeply attuned to the strangeness and the beauty of our often dysfunctional culture."
— Phil Klay, National Book Award Winner, author of Redeployment, Missionaries
Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite tell the story of a generation at a crossroads, and of friendships that stretch from the liberal arena of Boston academia to the military occupation of Iraq. Fast-moving and compulsively readable, War of the Encyclopaedists beats with the energetic pulse of idealistic youth on the threshold of adult reality. It is the vital, urgent, and utterly absorbing lament of a new generation searching for meaning and hope in a fractured world.
"Spirited...a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac."
— Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times