Gary Britson hails from America's Midwest and has fermented in popular culture for more than fifty years. In his work, references to Finnegan's Wake and the operas of Wagner stand alongside mentions of Hee Haw and The Three Stooges. In other stories, zombies eat at restaurant salad bars and young women communicate with fellow riders on public transit via slogans on T-shirts. Gary Britson's prose is continually inventive, hilarious and incisive. He wields humor and satire like a butcher's cleaver, taking apart objects of his derision with deft, entertaining whacks. For any surface misanthropy found in his stories, Gary Britson's fiction is fundamentally about the hope of the underdog, the optimism of the overlooked, and the innocence of the partially sane. From the wilds and wastelands of American publishers' slush piles, Modern Communications Techniques in Des Moines (and other stories) is a moving, entertaining kaleidoscope of contemporary life captured in one volume like fireflies in a mason jar.

About the Author

Gary Britson saw Whitey Ford shut out the Orioles at Yankee Stadium in 1964, played the bus driver in the Iowa City Community Theater production of Bus Stop in 1978, and had his picture taken with Gwen Verdon in 1991. Gary's short fiction has appeared in Opium, FRiGG Magazine, The Beat, and Unlikely Stories 2.0.

Gary Britson lives in Des Moines, Iowa.