2021//60 copy limited edition

Nick Perilli is a writer and librarian living in Philadelphia with loved ones and a Netflix DVD plan. His debut novel, Cul-de-sac, will soon be available from Montag Press (it might be available right now, depending on when you’re reading this). Short work of his can be found in Milk Candy Review, XRAY Lit Mag, SORTES Magazine, and elsewhere.

He has a cheap website: www.nickperilli.com

He’s on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok: @nicoloperilli

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"Like the shimmering and glittery ooze that spews from the Guts Astro-crag, Perilli’s odd alter-library world attaches itself to you for the foreseeable future, clings to your shirt and mandatory goggles as you navigate the unreality of the shelves and rooms and people that populate this brief but serpentine work."
-Nicholas Mehalick, Author of MELISSA ETHERIDGE’S SEMINAL 1993 ALBUM MADE OF TWO OVERLAPPING TRIANGLES INSTEAD OF ONE

"Nick Perilli is a magician disguised as a writer. In Child Lucia and Other Library Fabula, he claims to be writing stories, but he is really conjuring the world we all remember from our youth, taking us back to the dream and wonder of a childhood trip to the library. There is magic in this collection. Nick Perilli is a magician."
-Cathy Ulrich, author, Ghosts of You (Okay Donkey Press)


"The lost and dead are never far as long as we tend to our private libraries. Nick Perilli is a master of capturing and cataloguing those spectral-like moments of beauty, loss, and sadness that spring up and brush against us."
-Daniel DiFranco, author of Panic Years


"Child Lucia & Other Library Fabula feels like entering a museum of the bizarre, where the lives of a strange and kooky cast of characters entwine with a local library. Structured as a series of log notes, Nick Perilli constructs a setting that feels more akin to a funhouse than the sterile spaces we grew up visiting for storytimes and to check out the latest Goosebumps. This chapbook will make you think about what or who might be lurking in the basement of your local library or in the woods nearby."
- Christina Rosso, Author of Creole Conjure