Eugene Lim: Reception, reading and signing

Eugene Lim is the author of the novels Fog & Car (Ellipsis Press, 2008), The Strangers (Black Square Editions, 2013) and the recently published Dear Cyborgs (FSG Originals, 2017).

"'Dear Cyborgs' … blew me away with its deceptively blithe mixture of cryptic humor, philosophical ingenuity, and genuine political yearning. It made me think of Roberto Bolano and Tom McCarthy. I’m hoping to reread it soon for inspiration, and I hope it makes a splash out there in this overcrowded world."
—Jonathan Lethem in The Chicago Review of Books

"I was a few pages from the end of Eugene Lim’s wondrous new novel, DEAR CYBORGS, when I flipped back to the beginning and started again… His writing is confident and tranquil; he has a knack for making everyday life seem strange—or, in the case of DEAR CYBORGS, for making revolution seem like the most natural thing possible. His writing is transfixing from page to page, filled with digressive meditations on small talk and social protest, superheroes, terrorism, the art world, and the status of being marginal."
—Hua Hsu in The New Yorker

"Eugene Lim is amazing because he's really adventurous with form and style ... it's so refined. it's so hard to break apart fiction and do something really unusual with it, and to do it so gracefully."
– Dennis Cooper

Lim's writings have appeared in Dazed, Fence, Little Star, The Denver Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Jacket2, Gigantic, Your Impossible Voice, The Coming Envelope, Everyday Genius, Vestiges and elsewhere.