Russell Fox

Mystery Plays: the American One-ring Revival Minstrel Show & Free Circusgoatsongthe Case of the Three Comedians Russell Fox

?A work that deserves to be taken seriously?the work of a man with a gift for language and a love of ideas?Fox is a writer who bears watching.?
?Larry McGinn
CIRCUS Review
The Syracuse Post Standard

THE AMERICAN ONE-RING REVIVAL
MINSTREL SHOW & FREE CIRCUS
The Ringmaster of a failing tent show, disregarding the hectoring warnings of two talking clowns, persists in trying to make sense out of a circus that seems cursed?after his father and stepdaughter, now married, crash the proceedings.

GOATSONG
A hitchhiker breaks into a darkened bible-belt diner, after hours, and finds it to be haunted by an abnormally Catholic waitress.

THE CASE OF THE THREE COMEDIANS
Inspector Virgil Rafferty, after a disciplinary transfer to the Buffalo Public Library, stumbles into a mystery that will send him headlong into a menagerie of surgical monstrosities, plunge him into the poisonous wastes of Lake Erie and, ultimately, dump him at the brink of the terrible punchline of the Cosmic Joke.