Experiments in New Romanticism
By J.K. Franko
Introduction by John Farrell
A journey across time, place, and genre, exploring how writers, readers, lovers, and strangers attempt—and often fail—to reach one another.
Publication Date: April 6th, 2027
Hardcover ISBN: 9781646054671
eBook ISBN: 9781646054688
Description
In this formally inventive novel, J.K. Franko takes readers from 13th-century France to 1960s Miami, contemporary Texas, and Spain’s Camino de Santiago. Along the way, literature, language, and storytelling are serious business. A book club turns deadly; a father’s love story becomes a lesson in murder; two families fractured by political violence are brought together by an improbable romance.
At once intellectually playful and emotionally serious, Love Letters uses hybrid literary form to stage a multilayered dialogue between writers, readers, critics, and fictional characters—gradually dissolving the boundaries separating them and asking: is literature merely letters on a page, or an attempt by one consciousness to reach another across isolation and time?
Biographical Note
J.K. Franko is the author of the Talion trilogy (Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth, and Life for Life), the standalone thriller Killing Johnny Miracle, and the literary novel Love Letters. His novels have been published in Spanish translation by Grupo Planeta and Penguin Random House Spain. His first Spanish-language novel, Última Navidad en Madrid, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House Spain. A dual United States-Spanish citizen, Franko is founder and editor of Sine Qua Non and writes fiction and criticism exploring authorship, morality, memory, and human connection. He holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Texas at Dallas and lives between Texas and Spain.