The Collectors, by Matt Bell, a new chapbook, a work of fiction, coming out from the small literary press Caketrain, has Homer and Langley as primary subjects.

http://www.caketrain.org/collectors.html

The tale of compulsive hoarders Homer and Langley Collyer so shocked 1940s Manhattan that the brothers and their Harlem brownstone live on today as one of the most notable American case studies of acute disposophobia. With a nervous energy and obsession to match his protagonists, Matt Bell’s prose burrows, forensically, into the layers of the brothers’ lives, employing a multilinear narrative structure and a frenetic plurality of perspectives to reach a core of despair that is both terrifyingly primal and distressingly familiar.

You can read sections here:

http://issuu.com/caketrain/docs/collectors


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