These Threads Who Lead to Bramble

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Russell Persson's These Threads Who Lead to Bramble defies the singularity of any one genre as it braids together memory and myth to challenge the limits of our collective imagination.

Persson's work dredges up the forgotten marginalia of Westernized thought: the imagined lives of several European composers, of eccentric twentieth-century American photographers, of his ancestors both distant and recent, of the artist Egon Schiele in prison, teetering on the edge of sanity, and of Persson's own life traveling across America napping in the back seats of cars. As the work builds, the lines between personal memory and collective history become ever more abstract and epic in proportion, blending inner and outer spheres in ways that fundamentally ask us to give ourselves up to the unknowable expanse of universal existence. A must-read for fans of Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz.

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Russell Persson lives in Reno, Nevada. His first novel, The Way of Florida, was published in 2017 by Little Island Press, and was reprinted in 2025 by Baobab Press. His work has appeared in The Quarterly, Unsaid Magazine, 3AM Magazine, Egress Magazine and other publications.