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Christoph Keller

— novelist, essayist, storyteller. Here you’ll find his books, his thoughts, and the stories that continue to unfold.

On December 2, RIVER AN AMERICAN DREAMING is released — in hardcover from Birutjatio Press in India, and as an eBook on Amazon worldwide. A New York mytho-thriller written in English, RIVER dives into the city’s hidden strata: its drowned histories, its creatures of legend, its uneasy dreams. It is a satire, a love story, and a counter spell to the contemporary United States.

Sympathy for the Devil

Meanwhile, we were living at 2 Fifth. Washington Square Park was a bone’s throw away—just across the avenue, past the trees, visible if you leaned out far enough. This was before the renovation. Before the... Read More

RIVER
AN AMERICAN DREAMING

A buried river, a legendary snake, and a nation dreaming itself into madness—RIVER is a hallucinatory excavation of the American experiment.

Self-Interview with the Author

Conducted by the author in St. Gallen, after completing his novel
RIVER An American Dreaming.

What Moves Me/Bio

Wherever there’s an edge—pain, humor, identity—I follow it, weaving stories of rebels, dancers, and the ordinary-turned-extraordinary. My fiction asks uncomfortable questions and invites you to join the dance.

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