In Stories from the Tube, Matthew Sharpe spins ten unique and unforgettable tales inspired by the most mundane, ubiquitous texts in our culture -- television commercials. With echoes of David Foster Wallace, these stories create a world in which the utterly normal and the utterly surreal collide, shatter, and reassemble themselves, where the totally insane and the hilarious and the deeply moving occupy the same space, in the process, they speak volumes about how television reflects and distorts our imaginations and emotional lives, and how it both creates and destroys the mythology of the American family.

By turns haunting, savagely funny, surreal, and unexpectedly touching, Stories from the Tube marks the debut of a writer of uncommon talent and vision.