Bingo Bango Boingo by Alan Michael Parker
Award-winning author Alan Michael Parker displays his love for playful narrative and breaking all the rules in Bingo Bango Boingo, a collection of flash fiction told through Bingo cards
Flip the page. Choose your game. Is it “Community Garden Bingo”? “High School Reunion Bingo”? “Don’t Hate Your Daddy Bingo”? Or are you finally ready for “Change Your Life Bingo”?
Featuring 40 Bingo cards, interspersed with flash fiction and an opportunity to try the Bingo game yourself, this is a wholly original collection. Delightful, unexpected, and tongue in cheek—they’re stories, they’re Bingo cards, they’re wild, you’ll like them.
Publication Date: February 11 2025
Hardback
ISBN: 9781938603211
Award-winning author Alan Michael Parker displays his love for playful narrative and breaking all the rules in Bingo Bango Boingo, a collection of flash fiction told through Bingo cards
Flip the page. Choose your game. Is it “Community Garden Bingo”? “High School Reunion Bingo”? “Don’t Hate Your Daddy Bingo”? Or are you finally ready for “Change Your Life Bingo”?
Featuring 40 Bingo cards, interspersed with flash fiction and an opportunity to try the Bingo game yourself, this is a wholly original collection. Delightful, unexpected, and tongue in cheek—they’re stories, they’re Bingo cards, they’re wild, you’ll like them.
Publication Date: February 11 2025
Hardback
ISBN: 9781938603211
Award-winning author Alan Michael Parker displays his love for playful narrative and breaking all the rules in Bingo Bango Boingo, a collection of flash fiction told through Bingo cards
Flip the page. Choose your game. Is it “Community Garden Bingo”? “High School Reunion Bingo”? “Don’t Hate Your Daddy Bingo”? Or are you finally ready for “Change Your Life Bingo”?
Featuring 40 Bingo cards, interspersed with flash fiction and an opportunity to try the Bingo game yourself, this is a wholly original collection. Delightful, unexpected, and tongue in cheek—they’re stories, they’re Bingo cards, they’re wild, you’ll like them.
Publication Date: February 11 2025
Hardback
ISBN: 9781938603211
PRAISE FOR BINGO BANGO BOINGO
"The flash is fantastic. Parker shows mastery over the form with pieces of varying length and style, his long career in poetry and flash fiction manifests itself in the strength of his writing and the imagery packed into the tiny boxes of a bingo card...Parker has written Bingo Bango Boingo as a thoughtful, entertaining, and engaging collection of flash fiction and bingo cards, with something for every reader. As the book claims on its back cover, you’ll probably like it." –Mānoa Journal
PRAISE FOR Alan Michael Parker and CHRISTMAS IN JULY
“A thoroughly unsentimental novel...Parker is a master of tonal complexity.”—Kirkus Reviews
"Parker’s narrative crackles and swirls, spinning in surprising directions, landing with a totally unexpected impact." —Lit Hub
“Parker’s background in poetry is on full display in this novel in stories that follows Christmas Danzig, a 13-year-old girl with terminal cancer....Each tight and poignant story within is told from the perspective of one of the many misfit toys that Christmas meets along the way. All of these lovable goons and more make for a warm, fresh telling of a tragically familiar plight.”—Booklist
“This book isn't a series of morality tales, where the specter of death in the guise of a thirteen-year-old girl brings people to righteousness. Instead, it brilliantly shows how messed up we all are, dying or not.”
—Shelf Awareness
“Christmas Danzig, a girl ‘in the middle of growing up,’ charms both resident and reader with her fractured past, her haunting present, and her inevitable future [...] Parker delivers a first-rate heartbreaker that glows with regret, wit, and, above all, compassion.”
—Jon Pineda, Let's No One Get Hurt
“‘In case of ghost, break glass.’ Beautifully touching, funny, and accurate.”—Terese Svoboda, Anything That Burns You
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALAN MICHAEL PARKER is the author of twelve books, including The Committee on Town Happiness (Dzanc, 2014) and Christmas in July (Dzanc, 2018). The Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College and faculty in the University of Tampa MFA Program, he has received two selections for Best American Poetry, three Pushcart Prizes, the Fineline Prize, the 2013 and the 2014 Randall Jarrell Award, and the Lucille Medwick Award. He has been called “a general beacon of brilliance” by Time Out, New York.
