| Paul A. Toth lives in Florida. His novels
Fizz, Fishnet and Finale comprise a non-linear trilogy. The first
chapter of Finale can be heard in audio format at this site. He is pursuing an MS in Media Psychology. Toth has also published short stories, poems and multimedia pieces, most of them accessible from this site. He has served as assistant fiction editor for storySouth, Small Spiral Notebook and Mad Hatters' Review |
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CLICK HERE TO ORDER NOW "Michigan writer Toth tells a surrealistic and satirical story of a young loser who reinvents himself as a winner, with unintended results." ~ Detroit Free Press FISHNET: CLICK HERE TO ORDER NOW "Toth is a smart writer with a natural gift for dialogue and creative introspection. Fishnet will make you smile, laugh, feel, and think. Ultimately it will leave you hopeful." ~ Charlie Stella, author of Cheapskates FINALE: CLICK HERE TO ORDER NOW THE WORD ON FINALE: A whipsmart coming-of-age story that comes a bit too late for our hero, Finale is both satirical and sincere; psychologically astute and certifiably insane. Paul A. Toth puts on the page the kind of story the Coen Brothers put on film. Someone get them a copy. Jonathan Messinger, Time-Out Chicago Finale is a shaman's mix, both a metaphor and a road novel, and a truly funny book as only existential angst can be funny. Call Finale a Quixote for the new millennium, and strap in for the ride. ~ Rusty Barnes, Editor, Night Train Magazine Toth is a skilled writer who has selected words to paint pictures, or a movie, for each of the scenes. While the reader may get caught up in the story, one has to appreciate the beauty of the words on the page and how eloquent the descriptions and phrasing of the sentences are to this novel. ~ Aldo T. Calcagno, AMFM Mostly Mystery Reviews Toth's command for poetic language is harmonized well by his unruly knack for well-layered storytelling. His characters are beautifully magnetic, each one pulling the reader closer to the worthwhile ending, the quintessential "finale." ~ Tony Rodriguez, East Bay Literary Examiner If you are a fan of odd, wonky fiction then you are going to love this. I hoovered it up in a few sittings and was looking forward to the train ride to and from work so that I could read a chunk uninterrupted...cult status beckons for sure. ~ Me and My Big Mouth The novel's undercurrent is one that speaks to the disenfranchised, marginalized, multicultural, multiethnic and to movable ethnicities -- to flux of that which resides outside of race, looks in and is aware of it, but turns instead toward a more personal selfhood. ~ Cynthia Reeser, Prick of the Spindle Toth is the writer from hell and Finale is red hot, fork-arse writing from hell on earth itself. ~ Dexter Petley, author of One True Void and Little Nineveh Imagine a Coen Brothers movie with its black humor, irreverent dialogue, and unromantic view of love. And now cast Nicholas Cage as its deadpan narrator with a razor wit, aimed most especially at himself. Send that character on a search back in time, through his failed relationships, and you have Paul A. Toth's illuminating Finale. ~ Susan Henderson, author of The Ruby Cup With Finale, Paul A. Toth has written a poetic, humorous, moving and elegiac novel about the feral intricacies of relationships and the search for a sustainable identity. He is a veteran storyteller and stylist and it shows. ~ D. Harlan Wilson, author of Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemiaand Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria |
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POETRY Scythe Literary Jounal, Volume II: Ghost Surveillance and Forty Watts of Love Dear Sir: Tragicomic Cycle Pushing the Envelope Literary Magazine: Law of the Lawn Cartier Street Review: Vintage 1978 Puzzle Protest Poems: To Laborers and Other Lonely People Protest Poems: Bath Time Sorrowland Press: Logos Five Fishes: Veterans of Internal Wars Five Fishes: Demographic Dictators Rhythm Poetry Magazine: Two Poems Nth Position: Lettuce Outsider Writers: Poet of the Week Stellar Journal: Downscale Bachelor & Blues for Allen Ginsberg 1097 Magazine: Detective Work Inscribed: Paper Cuts Nth Position: Hidden Ponds Word Salad Magazine: Fission The Potomac: Notice of Notice Neon: Rise to Revise Piker Press: Authors of the Millennium Latchkey.net: Four Poems Inscribed: Fifty/Fifty Arabesques: Katzenfritzi Variations: Amateur Biolgist Word Salad: I Own Your Archives With Irving Ghost: Poetry Host KRUU 100.1 FM Twaddle: To the Gentleman... (offline) Southernmost Review: Air Traffic (offline) NONFICTION Media Psychology on Survey Magnet How Comfort Discomforts Us: SurveyMagnet.com Irrationality: The New Rationality The Nervous Breakdown Essays Stop Telling Me How to Listen to Classical Music My Hope and Yours: A Secular Support Group The Optimism Option: How to Be an Optimist in the Age of Pessimism Alcoholism, AA and the Medical Industry: Nationwide Malpractice Self-Interview: Airplane Novel Diet Coke: The Really Poor Man's Crack Helping Capitalism Help Itself to Death My Siamese Twin The Terminal Cancer of Capitalism Ben Stiller, the Man, the Interview Nine Holes with Robin Williams Lunch with Janeane Garofalo My Smokin' Interview with Sean Penn Other Essays, Reviews, Miscellanea Flatmancrooked: Ten Ways to Write a Bestseller Salon : Talking Heads Salon: David Mamet Barrelhouse: Why I Feel Badly for Britney Spears Shiny Gun: Between the Channels with Emmanuelle> Taint: The Legendary Stardust Cowboy Jon Hassell: Ticketstubs Journal of Modern Post: Dear Mr. Klonopin (offline) FILM The short fillm directed by John Tissivary and cowritten with Paul A. Toth: FIZZ »Click to Play The short film directed by Tom Shell and written by Paul A. Toth: KNOTTED »Click to Play AUDIO The Iowa Review Web presents Defunct Union, a musical. Myself Ablaze on another Drunken Boat. King Seuss is dethroned on The Iowa Review Web. Erupt with Molten Lava on The Blue Moon Review. Experience the first chapter of Fizz on Drunken Boat. Repeat the Repetition on hyperhiz (registration required). Detached Retina can be head on aslongasittakes. INTERVIEWS Associated Content: Finale Discussion The Joe Milford Poetry Show Eclectica Magazine Claire Zulkey SmokeLong Quarterly Sunspinner Fiction Forum Eternal Night Word Riot The Nervous Breakdown: Self-Interview re: Airplane Novel Ann Arbor Paper (offline) The Quarterly Staple (offline) Ann Arbor News (offline) Facsimilation (offline) Insolent Rudder (offline) Susan DiPlacido: Neon Fiction (offline) |
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