Rikki Ducornet

The Deep Zoo Rikki Ducornet

Included in Library Journal's "25 Key Indie Fiction Titles, Fall 2014-Winter 2015"

"A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."?The New York Times

"Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around."?The Nation

The Deep Zoo is a record of Rikki Ducornet's reading of the world, a gathering of alchemies where the unknown has become visible through the medium of art, be they Borges's tigers and Cortazar's lions, desire, mystery, or the grotesque.

Rikki Ducornet has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was honored twice by the Lannan Foundation.