Heroes and Villains

“Jerry Bumpus has an eye for freaks. . . . His place is American space, mainly the Southwest and Midwest: highways, motels, diners, used car lots, golf courses, cabins in the woods. There he unleashes his monsters, watching them settle the territory.”
—The New Republic

 

“Novelist Vance Bourjaily has called Jerry Bumpus the ‘king of underground writers.’ His tightly written, precise, and surrealist stories are definitely not for the squeamish, but the effect is overwhelming.”
—Library Journal