Smooth Friend / Experimental and creative non-fiction, short fiction, and poetry.

The Zoo of Thinking
Sebastian Castillo

Smooth Friend is honored to release the third entry in our book series, The Zoo of Thinking by Sebastian Castillo. These strange, forthright short stories seem to expand inward, kaleidescopic, raising the possibility that we are all always slightly out of sync. Nothing is terribly wrong though nothing is exactly right either—but as the protagonist in one story says, let's not feel suspicious toward the things which give us pleasure. There will be just one printing of The Zoo of Thinking, in an edition of one hundred.

Praise for The Zoo of Thinking

Sebastian Castillo is a writer of wry, playful erudition and The Zoo of Thinking is an eccentric collection of spirited, absurdist dream-stories.

Kathryn Scanlan

Sebastian Castillo’s heartaching and drastically precise prose miniatures sum up our unwearying melancholia with a nervy verve. You will need this book.

Garielle Lutz

The Zoo of Thinking / Sebastian Castillo / December 10, 2024 / 5½ x 7 inches, 48 pages, paper cover, 11,029 words / Printed by machine and bound by hand in San Francisco, California

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Sebastian Castillo is the author of 49 Venezuelan Novels, Not I, and SALMON. His next novel, Fresh, Green Life, is forthcoming in 2025. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.