Praise for Travis Nichols:
A rewarding experience. [Nichols'] sentences repeat and sit inside
each other as a sort of Greek chorus that resonates throughout the
book.--Chicago Sun-Times
Nichols pulls the readers in . . . with breathtaking immediacy. . . .
Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder is both original and
haunting.--Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Charli and Nico's wedding blog has an uninvited guest: a commenter
convinced the bride is being romanced by the brother of the groom. To
save her from a terrible mistake he adopts multiple identities on
multiple message boards, sharing his fears for Charli, his outrage at
being thwarted, and the romance, years ago in his analog past, that
first attracted his meddlesome care.
Cranky, hilarious, and incisive, The More You Ignore Me takes on
Internet etiquette, the distortions of voyeurism, and the incessant,
expansive flow of words that may not be able to staunch loneliness, but
holds out the hope of talking it to death.
Travis Nichols was born in Ames, Iowa. He attended the University of
Georgia and the University of Massachusetts, where he earned an MFA in
poetry. He is the author of the novel Off We Go into the Wild Blue
Yonder (Coffee House Press) and two collections of poetry, Iowa
(Letter Machine Editions) and See Me Improving (Copper Canyon Press).
From 2008 to 2012 he was associate editor of the Poetry Foundation's
website and editor of its blog, Harriet. He now works at Greenpeace in
Washington, DC.
