“Truly relentless—quite unlike anything I’ve read.”

—John Trefry, author of Plats

“Shades of Jerzy Kosinski meets Michel Houellebecq at J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise…. Hats off to Wardrip for his daring. An impeccable debut.”

—Richard Peabody, editor of Gargoyle Magazine

“Long arcs of memory dissolve and return to form a thrumming dissonance that holds Forum together, injecting it with life and momentum.… [A] deeply mood-driven work [that] is, in some way, a return to that ideal of Flaubert and J.K. Huysmans, a return to the novel without a plot.”

—Colorado Review

“Wrought with eerie, chilling tension…. This doesn’t feel like a debut novel; rather, Forum feels like Denis Johnson, like Camus, like a fearless writer feeding off an urgency to venture far and wide. You won’t have read a book like this.”

—Bradford Philen, author of When the Color Started