Welcome to the world of

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.

There is a crack in everything

Long before the Dutch arrived with their dikes and deeds. Before the grid was drawn and the sewer laid. Before the men in boots came to measure madness with clipboards and good intentions... 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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