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WORK IN PROGRESS

Catullus Is Dead is the third novel by Nathaniel G. Moore as yet unpublished. His last novel, Savage 1986-2011 was published in 2013 by Vancouver's Anvil Press.

When you don’t have a real-life role model, it pays to look to culture — high and low. And Moore went looking. In 2005, he published Bowlbrawl, which chronicled the influence of Robert Towell, a bowling prodigy and later ruthless manager, who combined the cultures of wrestling and bowling into a spectacularly toxic brew. Eight years later, Moore published a novel, Savage 1986–2011, which drew upon his childhood obsession with the ultra-masculine pro wrestler Randy “Macho Man” Savage, who died of a heart attack in 2011. His most recent short story collection is Jettison. Along the way, the Globe and Mail has described his style as a cocktail mix of William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson.

Over the years, Moore has also confronted his obsession with the scandalous and long-dead virtuoso Roman poet Catullus, a prototype libertine bad boy who’s useful to a modern-day alienated youth looking for a role model (see Let’s Pretend We Never Met). And he has brilliantly riffed on the erotic, polemical, and scabrous poetry of that chic troublemaker (see Goodbye Horses).

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