The White Noise Album

Through frayed days and gritty nights come characters with their wits—and fists—about them. In Jonathan Lyons’ elemental tales, we find the butane-flamed black bottom of a spoon that loosens a musician from his loves. Dropping minnows and falling moments. The welcoming crawl space of a Fox Head. And a sonic tide in Iowa. Like the narrator in many of these stories, Lyons doubles back, writing and re-writing the negative, tracking the time before the crisis in the lives of everyday people. Here are stories to make you, too, alert to possibility.