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Magical Realism Meets Noir: On Michael Fessier’s “Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind”
Jack Mearns reviews the surreal, deadpan noir of Michael Fessier’s “Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind.”...
Jack Mearns
Jack Mearns is a professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tokyo in Japan. He is the author of the nonfiction book John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography (revised second edition, 2022, Cutting Edge Books) and the novels Deadline News — psychological suspense about obsession with celebrity — and Caliphornia, which turns the British colonial novel on its head.
Articles
Paranoia, Obsession, and Murder in Robert M. Coates’s “Wisteria Cottage”
Jack Mearns examines Robert M. Coates’s “Wisteria Cottage,” a midcentury psychological noir from an author too often overlooked....
The Burden of History in John Sanford’s “Make My Bed in Hell” and “The Land that Touches Mine”
Jack Mearns explores the life and work of John Sanford, an oft-neglected 20th-century American writer who wrote incisive novels addressing American society....
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