PRAISE  FOR  GARGOYLE  HOTEL
Christopher Sartisohn's debut novel Gargoyle Hotel is terrifying, hilarious and surreal. This book will surely place Mr. Sartisohn as the logical heir to the legacy of William S. Burroughs.” 

— Noah Becker, Whitehot Magazine publisher & editor-in-chief, contributing writer for Art in America, Huffington Post and Andy Warhol's INTERVIEW Magazine 
Hypnotic and haunting…Gargoyle Hotel reads like an experimental film script, filled with epic cinematic scenes.” 

— Jason Rogan, producer (Amsterdam Heavy)
A revolutionary collection of mind-bending shorts unfolding like scenes in a hallucinogenic screenplay…the density of prose approaches poetic dimensions…a stunning debut!” 

— Henri Falconi, cinematographer/actor (Pi)
I was barely fifteen when I read William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch. I know, too soon. But I had just seen him with his entourage of pretty boys on St. Catherine Street and he had beckoned me and my friend closer. He made us understand during conversations later that day that he essentially wrote poetry.
      Christopher H. Sartisohn's new novel Gargoyle Hotel can also be read as poetry. You could open it at random to purely enjoy the play of words. Here I go. At random. Oh, it's the lump of the thirteen-year-old bursting into spiders. Again. The symphony of the bowel. Short stories a page long, vaguely repulsive, or science fiction if you will, but always with a deep sense of humor, albeit detached, as if we are sharing a joke about a distant cousin who can't help himself. I tried to zoom into the musical episodes, Sartisohn being such an accomplished guitarist, but I found rock & roll where I expected jazz, and fractal landscapes in lieu of pastorals. I immensely enjoyed Gargoyle Hotel, its inhabitants, its whimsy, and most of all its never ceasing, never soft, background noise of sculpted words. Highly recommended....” 

— Jam Hamidi, author (Chainlink)
Sartisohn coaxes the reader along a fine wire between the beautiful and the horrific; this wire locally zigzags according to mild algorithmic randomness, but tends to resolve with unexpected coherence at larger scales. Across his vignettes we visit the extraterrestrial, oceanic, far-east, near-west, a slew of mythic and biological aberrations…all generously distorted through the author's dream-lens. Gargoyle Hotel is a five star establishment.” 

— Dr. J. D. Bingham (Microsoft, Intel*)
A book of shifting sand, each word a grain, and the wind constantly blowing.” 

— Jam Hamidi, author (Chainlink)
Post-modern gypsy-jazz literature; a virtuosic, sweeping, lyrical improvisation.” 

— Robin Nolan, internationally acclaimed jazz musician & educator
Bohemian concrete poetry overtures are used to contextually enhance modular words with a Waits/ Burroughs/Beefheart vibe.” 

— Jeremy O. Turner, PhD (ABD), MA Interactive Arts (Simon Fraser University)
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