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At a reading of his hot new
novel, Everything Burns, author Christopher Klim was interrupted by
employees of the Princeton Theological Seminary to present the author with an
award. It created an awkward moment, where the author demurred to members of
the seminary mailroom who presented the plaque.
“I thought it was some kind
of joke,” admitted Klim, “but I suddenly realized they were sincere.”
As a tradition, the mailroom
selects and recommends books for the 800 studying seminarians. In a surprise
vote, Klim’s satire on religious fanaticism, Jesus Lives in Trenton,
received the nod.
“Once you get beyond the title,”
Klim said, “it’s really an allegory about man’s thirst for grace. It’s not all
that surprising that they selected it.”
Jesus Lives in Trenton is the story of photojournalist Boot Means, who
encounters a mystical event and employs it to establish a name for himself.
Since the book’s 2002 release, it has become a growing cult favorite in the US
and overseas.
“That’s the advantage of
being with a small press,” Klim said. “If the book is appreciated by readers,
it hangs around on the shelves and builds a following. The big media blitz
books run their course in three months or less.”
In contrast, Klim’s new
novel is moving quickly as a library favorite. Booklist, which also
praised his first novel, called the follow-up Everything Burns,
“absorbing reading.”
Even tough
critics, like Jason Price Everett of Circle Magazine, agree. “Everything
Burns is just as good as, if not better than, its illustrious predecessor.
The bullet train of his prose is even slicker and sexier than it was the last
time.”
After years of research and
interviews, Klim decided to send Boot Means after a serial arsonist in Texas.
“For certain, it’s a different tone,” Klim said, “but it’s still the same
resilient Boot Means character. I understand his nature. He’s always ready for
a fight.”
It’s that spirit that marks
Klim as an author, drawing comparisons to Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Carver, and
John Steinbeck.
Klim is the senior editor of
Writers Notes Magazine, a new literary publication of stories, essays,
interviews, poetry, visual arts, and a forum for new writing and independent
publishers. He actively donates time to emerging writers and promotes the
writing craft in primary and secondary schools.
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