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Somewhere in Della's consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last.
Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della's revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own insular beliefs. Her activist restaurant co-workers, who would rather change their identities than the world around them, resume a shallow rebellion of hair-dye, sex parties, and self-absorption. As those bombs keep inching closer, thudding deep and real between the sounds of katydids fluttering in the still of the city night, and the destruction begins to excite her. What begins as terror threats called in to greasy bro-bars across the block boils over into a desperate plot, intoxicating and captivating Della and leaving her little chance for escape.
Zazen unfolds as a search for clarity soured by irresolution and catastrophe, yet made vital by the thin, wild veins of imagination run through each escalating moment, tensing and relaxing, unfurling and ensnaring. Vanessa Veselka renders Della and her world with beautiful, freighting, and phantasmagorically intelligent accuracy, crafting from their shattered constitutions a perversely perfect mirror for our own selves and state.
Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della's revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own insular beliefs. Her activist restaurant co-workers, who would rather change their identities than the world around them, resume a shallow rebellion of hair-dye, sex parties, and self-absorption. As those bombs keep inching closer, thudding deep and real between the sounds of katydids fluttering in the still of the city night, and the destruction begins to excite her. What begins as terror threats called in to greasy bro-bars across the block boils over into a desperate plot, intoxicating and captivating Della and leaving her little chance for escape.
Zazen unfolds as a search for clarity soured by irresolution and catastrophe, yet made vital by the thin, wild veins of imagination run through each escalating moment, tensing and relaxing, unfurling and ensnaring. Vanessa Veselka renders Della and her world with beautiful, freighting, and phantasmagorically intelligent accuracy, crafting from their shattered constitutions a perversely perfect mirror for our own selves and state.
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Zazen felt like the future when it first appeared, but the present also like Veselka had created her own genre just to describe how we were and who we d become. Electric, visionary, I think it will always be a bellwether of a novel. Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night
Zazen is revolutionary. Gorgeously written, deeply intelligent, explosive, it is a vicious and nuanced takedown of the neo-liberal state, and the reactionary, identity-besotted left that opposes it. As forests burn and cities are gentrified and billionaires launch themselves into space, there is no better time for this story of terror and joy and the intoxicating freedom of resisting authority in all its insidious guises. Veselka is a genius, an outsider philosopher for the ages. Cara Hoffman, founding editor, The Anarchist Review of Books
Veselka s prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations. . . . Veselka makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness. Publishers Weekly
Veselka honors the complexity of a young, intelligent generation at once confused and overwhelmed, but willing to enact change. . . . Zazen is a satiric examination of the real and perceived boundaries of activism and idealism in twenty-first-century America. Kenyon Review
Powerful. . . . A streaking flash of barbed satire and 21st century malaise. The New York Journal of Books
Vital and explosive, this book is not to be missed. Flavorwire
Zazen has a power beyond the satire and the clever reimagining of today s counterculture trends. It also has heart and soul. The Oregonian
Veselka grabs plot by the lapels and brings it to the forefront of the book without sacrificing the effectiveness of the more ethereal aspects of good fiction. The Millions
Vanessa Veselka is something like a literary comet: bright-burning, far-reaching, rarely seen, and a little dangerous. Tom Bissell
At turns hilarious, unsettling, and improbably sweet, Veselka s debut is, above all, a highly engaging, and totally unique experience, which will have you rereading passages and dog-earing pages. But best of all, in the end, Zazen is that rare novel which dares to be hopeful in the face of despair, and succeeds. Jonathan Evison, author of Lawn Boy
Zazen is revolutionary. Gorgeously written, deeply intelligent, explosive, it is a vicious and nuanced takedown of the neo-liberal state, and the reactionary, identity-besotted left that opposes it. As forests burn and cities are gentrified and billionaires launch themselves into space, there is no better time for this story of terror and joy and the intoxicating freedom of resisting authority in all its insidious guises. Veselka is a genius, an outsider philosopher for the ages. Cara Hoffman, founding editor, The Anarchist Review of Books
Veselka s prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations. . . . Veselka makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness. Publishers Weekly
Veselka honors the complexity of a young, intelligent generation at once confused and overwhelmed, but willing to enact change. . . . Zazen is a satiric examination of the real and perceived boundaries of activism and idealism in twenty-first-century America. Kenyon Review
Powerful. . . . A streaking flash of barbed satire and 21st century malaise. The New York Journal of Books
Vital and explosive, this book is not to be missed. Flavorwire
Zazen has a power beyond the satire and the clever reimagining of today s counterculture trends. It also has heart and soul. The Oregonian
Veselka grabs plot by the lapels and brings it to the forefront of the book without sacrificing the effectiveness of the more ethereal aspects of good fiction. The Millions
Vanessa Veselka is something like a literary comet: bright-burning, far-reaching, rarely seen, and a little dangerous. Tom Bissell
At turns hilarious, unsettling, and improbably sweet, Veselka s debut is, above all, a highly engaging, and totally unique experience, which will have you rereading passages and dog-earing pages. But best of all, in the end, Zazen is that rare novel which dares to be hopeful in the face of despair, and succeeds. Jonathan Evison, author of Lawn Boy
Zazen felt like the future when it first appeared, but the present also like Veselka had created her own genre just to describe how we were and who we d become. Electric, visionary, I think it will always be a bellwether of a novel. Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night
Zazen is revolutionary. Gorgeously written, deeply intelligent, explosive, it is a vicious and nuanced takedown of the neo-liberal state, and the reactionary, identity-besotted left that opposes it. As forests burn and cities are gentrified and billionaires launch themselves into space, there is no better time for this story of terror and joy and the intoxicating freedom of resisting authority in all its insidious guises. Veselka is a genius, an outsider philosopher for the ages. Cara Hoffman, founding editor, The Anarchist Review of Books
Veselka s prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations. . . . Veselka makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness. Publishers Weekly
Veselka honors the complexity of a young, intelligent generation at once confused and overwhelmed, but willing to enact change. . . . Zazen is a satiric examination of the real and perceived boundaries of activism and idealism in twenty-first-century America. Kenyon Review
Powerful. . . . A streaking flash of barbed satire and 21st century malaise. The New York Journal of Books
Vital and explosive, this book is not to be missed. Flavorwire
Zazen has a power beyond the satire and the clever reimagining of today s counterculture trends. It also has heart and soul. The Oregonian
Veselka grabs plot by the lapels and brings it to the forefront of the book without sacrificing the effectiveness of the more ethereal aspects of good fiction. The Millions
Vanessa Veselka is something like a literary comet: bright-burning, far-reaching, rarely seen, and a little dangerous. Tom Bissell
At turns hilarious, unsettling, and improbably sweet, Veselka s debut is, above all, a highly engaging, and totally unique experience, which will have you rereading passages and dog-earing pages. But best of all, in the end, Zazen is that rare novel which dares to be hopeful in the face of despair, and succeeds. Jonathan Evison, author of Lawn Boy
Zazen is revolutionary. Gorgeously written, deeply intelligent, explosive, it is a vicious and nuanced takedown of the neo-liberal state, and the reactionary, identity-besotted left that opposes it. As forests burn and cities are gentrified and billionaires launch themselves into space, there is no better time for this story of terror and joy and the intoxicating freedom of resisting authority in all its insidious guises. Veselka is a genius, an outsider philosopher for the ages. Cara Hoffman, founding editor, The Anarchist Review of Books
Veselka s prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations. . . . Veselka makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness. Publishers Weekly
Veselka honors the complexity of a young, intelligent generation at once confused and overwhelmed, but willing to enact change. . . . Zazen is a satiric examination of the real and perceived boundaries of activism and idealism in twenty-first-century America. Kenyon Review
Powerful. . . . A streaking flash of barbed satire and 21st century malaise. The New York Journal of Books
Vital and explosive, this book is not to be missed. Flavorwire
Zazen has a power beyond the satire and the clever reimagining of today s counterculture trends. It also has heart and soul. The Oregonian
Veselka grabs plot by the lapels and brings it to the forefront of the book without sacrificing the effectiveness of the more ethereal aspects of good fiction. The Millions
Vanessa Veselka is something like a literary comet: bright-burning, far-reaching, rarely seen, and a little dangerous. Tom Bissell
At turns hilarious, unsettling, and improbably sweet, Veselka s debut is, above all, a highly engaging, and totally unique experience, which will have you rereading passages and dog-earing pages. But best of all, in the end, Zazen is that rare novel which dares to be hopeful in the face of despair, and succeeds. Jonathan Evison, author of Lawn Boy