
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.”...
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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.