He has become without purpose and nostalgic. Jim Fog is stuck in a small town in the Midwest right after he got divorced. “Fog & Car” is the first novel Eugene Lim published and was released in the year 2008. In this, there are two friends that share a love of comics. They have taught him many things about art, nerd solidarity, friendship, and many other things, important things. In high school, he met two people that he shared a lot of time going over certain films, comics, and music. He had some friends that showed him different comic books, something he used in the writing of the book. Part of his third novel, “Dear Cyborgs”, came from Lim’s own life experiences this being the part where the main character and his friend Vu converse about comics. It is reflective of the contemporary experience someone goes through everyday, one that is fragmentary, fractal, and disparate (in the ways that people watch a movie, converse with a co-worker, listen to someone’s podcast). He tries to make the different tales come together and harmonize and interact with each other, to somehow to create something that is tied together and not like an anthology. Through the many monologues, it allows for many different styles and types of content.

In his work, he makes everyday life seem odd, or making something (like a revolution) seem like the most natural thing in the world. Eugene Lim’s debut novel, “Fog & Car” was released in the year 2008 and was published by Ellipsis Press. His goal with Ellipsis Press is that he tries to find experimental novels to publish, and that when he discovers an unpublished manuscript that is great, that is when the magic happens.Įugene Lim’s work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Your Impossible Voice, Vestiges and many other places. He has said that he was named for Eugene O’Neill (who is a playwright) he says that there is even a family story that goes along with this.

It gives him hope, because the kids themselves have hope. As a librarian, he finds that it has problems, but overall is something that he loves. Author Eugene Lim runs Ellipsis Press and works as a high school librarian.

Dear cyborgs