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A quirky catalogue of imaginary photographs, The Photo Album, is an idiosyncratic mix of character study and meditation—a glimpse into the life of a peculiar photo-enthusiast named Michael Quick and a questioning, if somewhat cursory, examination of his present obsession. It is a portrait not just of the photographer, but of the time and space around him. Also the people—his camera-shy wife Amy; his friend, the writer Ryan Richardson; his neighbors the Moores, whose son is mysteriously missing. A concise and unconventional wander, it is as much a comic adventure as a contemplative one.
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"Thoughtful and drily humorous, Dixon’s portrait of a portraitist...is written in a subtle and mature idiom with a curious, half-revealed philosophical subtext." Lydia Millet, Love in Infant Monkeys
A Painter’s Life is a characteristically mischievous oddity. A mix of biographical scraps, journal entries, review excerpts, and interviews, it is an intimate and introspective tour of the art world—a portrait of the sometimes portraitist Christopher Freeze. Focusing in part on Freeze’s friends, family, and fellow artists—as well as his relationship with his frazzled dealer and his would-be monographer—it is an inventive, seriocomic look at one peculiar man’s ceaseless struggle to make something beautiful.
Winner of the Next Generation
Indie Book Award
Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
Oregon Book Award Finalist
“Beguiling...a slyly funny and perceptive take on creativity and the artist's life, and a gentle skewering of the art establishment and critics."
--John Foyston, The Oregonian
"Often books about painters don't ring true, but this one...does." --Sharon Butler,Two Coats of Paint
"Reads like a journal…but unlike a journal, this sack of asides, hopes, press clippings, musings on friendships, work, other artists, critics, dealers, paint and the point of paint adds up to a life." --Regina Hackett, Another Bouncing Ball
"A Painter's Life is a novel in chunks...Funny...Quirky... Charming." --Roberta Fallon, The Artblog
"Absorbing. Full of keen human insight...so dead on you can't help but laugh. A treatise on creativity, the fleeting nature of inspiration, and the difficulty of producing art..." --Meagan Sweeney, Leafing Through Life
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Oregon Book Award Finalist
“Enigmatic…Addictive…With passages that are so well turned they can be called lyrical—and others that are laugh out loud funny.” – A.M. Homes
"...original...unusual...full of pithy observations" -- Jeff Baker, The Oregonian
"Syndromes is funny; it's insightful; it's gonzo" --Willamette Week
"Dixon effortlessly captures what it's like to be human in a relatively uncaring world, but the beauty of the book is in the fact that he makes you laugh while doing so." --Katherine Weikert, The Lit Mob
"A quirky book that I absolutely loved. I'd like to quote at least half of it." --Nancy Horner, Bookfoolery
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K. B. Dixon’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and journals. The recipient of an OAC Individual Artist Fellowship Award, he is the author of five novels: The Sum of His Syndromes, Andrew (A to Z), A Painter's Life, The Ingram Interview, and The Photo Album as well as the short story collection, My Desk and I.
National Indie Excellence Dixon's novels are "lean, tight, minimalist, quizzical, modern, urban. He's an acute observer with a humorous, slightly jaundiced eye, and he takes wry pleasure in playing around with literary form." --Bob Hicks, Art Scatter "...densely packed with thought-provoking, savvy, wise and often funny observations." --Nancy Horner, Bookfoolery and Babble "An engaging impression of a man cut adrift...Comic and cutting, pithy and... profound." J. David Santen Jr., The Oregonian "Interesting and new... Incredibly fun... " Adam Burgess, Roof Beam Reader "The Ingram Interview is described as 'unrepentantly quirky.' I can't disagree; it is also very funny—wryly, tongue-in-cheek funny." A GARDEN CARRIED IN THE POCKET "I have never read anything quite like Dixon's books. Quick, quirky, fun, and clever." Sandy Nawrot, You Gotta Read This
The Ingram Interview is an unrepentantly quirkly novel. An extended conversation, it weaves its way interrogatively through the life of Daniel Ingram, a retired, none-too-healthy English professor who has been kicked out of an assisted-care facility because he was depressing other residents. Moving in temporarily with a former student of his—a young art-film maker named Michael Berger—Daniel works fitfully on a ramshackle memoir as he continues to pursue a reconciliation with his absent ex-wife.
Book Award Finalist
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“A unique sort of pleasure… Intriguing …Andrew is a fully realized Everyman, juggling life, death and a hundred other little irritations. Clever, but never mocking or cruel” --Katie Schneider, The Oregonian 
“How was my day? I’m trying not to remember.” A wry, unconventional character study, Andrew (A to Z) is a sort of mosaic that the reader assembles subconsciously. Focusing on the narrator’s family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors, it is the story of a quasi-neurotic malcontent on the edge of the edge of middle middle-age. An amateur photographer, the office satirist, an evening’s dinner guest, Andrew pastes together in alphabetical disorder a collage portrait of his baffled suburban life.
"Engaging protagonist...Lively writing...Penetrating...Unorthodox."--Daniel Green, The Reading Experience
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