{"id":63,"date":"2025-11-02T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/connect\/?p=63"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:57:43","slug":"a-whole-lot-of-static-by-aron-kruschnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/a-whole-lot-of-static-by-aron-kruschnik\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Whole Lot of Static&#8221; by Aron Kruschnik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.64.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.64.jpg 250w, https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.64-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>Aron Kruschnik, a Hungarian poet and visual artist, lived through communism and now roams the free world, declaring: \u201cI have as many homes as there are squares on a chessboard.\u201d He explains his use of monochrome illustrations with characteristic candor: \u201cLife under communism was black-and-white, sometimes gray \u2013 and that\u2019s how I draw.\u201d Kruschnik even resists the label poet, insisting instead: \u201cI simply write word clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A WHOLE LOT OF STATIC is a book dedicated to \u201cchildren of all ages.\u201d Through its striking illustrations and playful yet powerful poems, it unveils a singular, captivating world. Within its pages you\u2019ll meet Storm-Face Flo, GigaVolt, MegaWatt, and a host of other beings \u2013 human, animal, and mechanical alike. Together, they inhabit a realm of deep lakes, endless skies, towering mountains, and mysterious dwellings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Published by Novelty Fiction on November 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Available in paperback format (54 pages) via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FXPYPVRM\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Available in PDF format via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magcloud.com\/browse\/issue\/3195797?__r=25565\">MagCloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 615px; background-color: #f6f6f6; border: 7px solid #F6F6F6; -moz-border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px; color: #383131;\">\n<p><a class=\"test_navToIssue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magcloud.com\/browse\/issue\/3195797?__r=25565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 150px; float: left; margin-right: 15px; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/storage4.magcloud.com\/image\/263fa2b75bd79c46bf835208b574bc2a.jpg\" alt=\"A Whole Lot of Static\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 435px; float: left;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0 0 0; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Sans-Serif;\"><a class=\"test_navToIssue\" style=\"color: #0e467d; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magcloud.com\/browse\/issue\/3195797?__r=25565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Whole Lot of Static<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 9px 0 0 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">A WHOLE LOT OF STATIC is a book dedicated to \u201cchildren of all ages.\u201d Through its striking illustrations and playful yet powerful poems, it unveils a singular, captivating world. Within its pages you\u2019ll meet Storm-Face Flo, GigaVolt, MegaWatt, and a host of other beings \u2013 human, animal, and\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\"><a class=\"test_navToIssue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magcloud.com\/browse\/issue\/3195797?__r=25565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 19px 0 6px 0; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magcloud.com\/resource\/Image\/medium_widget_foot\" alt=\"Find out more on MagCloud\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Aron Kruschnik, a Hungarian poet and visual artist, lived through communism and now roams the free world, declaring: \u201cI have as many homes as there are squares on a chessboard.\u201d He explains his use of monochrome illustrations with characteristic candor: \u201cLife under communism was black-and-white, sometimes gray \u2013 and that\u2019s how I draw.\u201d Kruschnik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-aron-kruschnik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}