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Pub Date 3 Mar 2026 | Archive Date 8 Apr 2026


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Description

Who is shooting people in Liberal, Kansas, and why are the bullets mainly mystical rounds? What really happens the second time an American writer is abducted by aliens? How would Vladimir Nabokov have rewritten the book his ghost helps narrate?

You-Gin One-Gin answers these questions across three wildly inventive layers: a stage adaptation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, the narration of Kip Knurl, African-American theater professor at Liberal State University, and the surreal perspective of Nabokov’s ghost. Each section ends with a “shooting”—in the play, on campus, and in ghostly metafiction—though no one truly dies.

A genre-defying ride for lovers of absurdist humor, experimental narrative, and the exhilarating intersections of literature, science, and the supernatural.

Who is shooting people in Liberal, Kansas, and why are the bullets mainly mystical rounds? What really happens the second time an American writer is abducted by aliens? How would Vladimir Nabokov...


A Note From the Publisher

Douglas Robinson has never worked as a Professor of Comparative Literature or Acting Chair of the Theater Department at Liberal State University, or even set foot in Liberal, Kansas. He has never been married to a dean, or worked to save that dean’s life when a vengeful department chair hijacked by the ghost of Jean de Meun went gunning for her. He has never once (let alone twice) been abducted by aliens, or attended a game in the Lingerie Football League. To his knowledge he has never had a conversation with Vladimir Nabokov’s ghost. He wrote the Pushkin stage adaptation in Oxford, Mississippi, and Parts One and Two in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China. His previous novels with Atmosphere Press were The Last Days of Maiju Lassila and Insecticide: A Republican Romance.

Douglas Robinson has never worked as a Professor of Comparative Literature or Acting Chair of the Theater Department at Liberal State University, or even set foot in Liberal, Kansas. He has never...


Advance Praise

"The prose is conversational and alert, often wryly funny, and comfortable moving between high literary references and everyday speech. You-Gin One-Gin rewards readers who like catching allusions, but it doesn’t require specialized knowledge to follow the action. [...] This is a novel for readers who take pleasure in a story that knows it is being told and invites the audience to watch it happen. Robinson has penned a literary masterpiece." - Reader's Favorite

"I liked how Robinson lets Pushkin walk in and out of his own story, constantly poking at the thin wall between author and character, past and present. Sometimes it felt like sitting in the back row of a rehearsal where the playwright keeps changing lines on the fly, then turning to you to justify the change. That intimacy works. It made the classic material feel playful and modern. [...] If you are in the mood for literary metafiction that plays with a classic text, makes fun of academia, and is happy to chase a joke or an idea as far as it will go, then You-Gin One-Gin: Sort of a Novel is worth your time. Readers who enjoy experimental fiction, campus and sports stories with a twist, or who already have a soft spot for Eugene Onegin and Nabokov will probably get the most out of it." - Literary Titan

"The prose is conversational and alert, often wryly funny, and comfortable moving between high literary references and everyday speech. You-Gin One-Gin rewards readers who like catching allusions...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9798901740477
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
PAGES 382

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