The conference is very well attended this year. Dimitri Anastasopoulos and Christina Milletti did an amazing job pulling the thing together. We're hoping they don't collapse from exhaustion. Steve Tomasula presented his DVD "book," Toc. There was some discussion in the wee hours about whether it really is a book, especially since Steve slipped up…
Ed at the &Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts, Buffalo, NY
I'll be participating as a panelist on the following: Purple Brain: A Paul West Panel Anne-Laure Tissut, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Dave Kress, Edward Desautels, Christina Milletti (critical/model airplanes) Location: Ellicott (3rd) Time: Friday, October 16, 2009, 11:30 to 12:50 PM Dreams of Dada/Surrealism (critifiction) Steve Katz, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Edward Desautels, Dimitri Anastasopoulos Location: Ellicott (3rd) Time:…
The Paul West Experience: Liberating the Microcosms
I've prepared this essay for the 4th Biennial &Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts, to be held this week in Buffalo, NY. I'll be joining Anne-Laure Tissut, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Dave Kress, and Christina Milletti for "Purple Brain: A Paul West Panel." The essay recalls some of my fond memories of Paul, and…
Message Form Added to Maximum Fiction
I've had an incredibly busy few weeks as I wound down the 2009 Pittsburgh Golfers Tour season, prepared for this week's &Now conference, managed a crush of work in my professional life, and tread water on the trivial-yet-necessary tasks of day-to-day living. I do see some light at the end of the tunnel, however, and…
Craft Notes: Paul West’s Technical Advice for Fiction Writers, Part V
The novelist Paul West has had the greatest influence on my development as a writer. I first had the great fortune of encountering this member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winner of the Prix Médicis and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, Literary Lion of the New York Public Library system, and…
Ed Desautels' Maximum Fiction 