The Museum of Future Mistakes

The author will be joined in conversation with BOA Editions Executive Director Peter Conners.

In this surreal short story collection, gruesome scenarios take a tender turn, and beautiful moments become sources of derision.The Museum of Future Mistakes is packed with inventive narrative choices and sharp lyricism, upending expectations on every page. Through fabulist and magical realist stories, Gapinski considers our physical relationship with our own bodies, how we process love and loss, and the fragility of identity amid moments of personal crisis.

“The Museum of Future Mistakes is an eclectic romp through the challenges of dating, loving, and simply trying to exist in a strange, at times hostile, world.” – Gwen E. Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw 

James R. Gapinski (they/them) is the author of three chapbooks and the novella Edge of the Known Bus Line (Etchings Press, 2018). Their short fiction has appeared in the Best Microfiction 2023 anthology, Heavy Feather Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Variant Literature, and other publications. Gapinski is the managing editor of Conium Press in Portland, Oregon, and teaches fiction for Southern New Hampshire University’s online MFA program.

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