Fiction. Chris Leo's second novel with drawings by Marcellus Hall, 57 OCTAVES BELOW THE MIDDLE C is a jaunty exploration of the romance of paradox and, inextricably converse, the paradox of romance. New York City tour guide Steven Schecker is on a smoke break with fellow tour guides debating the etymologies, chronologies, and mysteries of everything as it relates to New York City when he spots his girlfriend's mother across the street and the two take off by foot and by tour bus on a day around the city in which the city is presented as a metaphor for his girlfriend/her daughter and her daughter/his girlfriend functions as a metaphor for the city and the two continue to spiral together and swap polarities until cocktail hour is a must. Marcellus Hall (of The New Yorker, The New York Times) has offered forty illustrations throughout the book as integral vignettes alongside the script.

A hybrid collection comprised of short stories, flash fiction, and prose poems, the works in 57 Octaves Below Middle C enact the dilemma of self-forgetting. This book is for any reader who hears the states of dissonance that are disturbing and natural aspects of the human comedy.

By Chris Leo.

Table of contents: Preface 1. Music Terminology 2. Narrative Text 3. Citations 4. Musical Examples 5. Tables and Illustrations 6. The Printed Program 7. Electronics 8. Best Practices for Student Writers Appendix: Problem Words and Sample Style Sheet Bibliography.

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