Those Brave As the Skate Is

Synopsis of the Novel, Those Brave As the Skate Is Patrick Keller's Those Brave As the Skate Is is the 2018 winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. Jonathan Lyons, the contest judge and the late novelist, praised the novel for being a "visionary work, one that challenges form and content, destroying both to recreate them in its own vision". Patrick Keller's breadth of vision is simply astonishing. About the Author, Patrick Keller Patrick Keller grew up in Claremont, California before attending UC Berkeley and UC Irvine to study English and Psychology. His grad school mentor gave him a Steve Katz book which inspired his dissertation on the type of freewheeling mixture of autobiography and fiction. In 2010, after reading material from Raymond Federman and Ronald Sukenick, he created Pescetarealism, an effort to apply their egalitarian ideals to something more persistent than performance. He received his Ph.D in English for Subversively Personal: Surfiction As Commu