The following is excerpted from Manifesto: Maximalist Expressionism, or "Shut/-/Up(!) Fiction". Always With a Bit of Laughter If there’s one thing I’ve taken from works of the authors I admire it’s the role humor and high-spiritedness can play in making fiction come alive. It seems to me fiction should bring to bear the full spectrum…
Craft Notes: Paul West’s Technical Advice for Fiction Writers, Part VII
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…
Craft Notes: Paul West’s Technical Advice for Fiction Writers, Part VI
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…
Père Ubu in Housebreaking the Muse (excerpt)
In my novel (in progress), Housebreaking the Muse, a reformed, erudite, and chatty Père Ubu plays a central role and handles the lion's share of the narrative. The following excerpt is from the second chapter, in which Ubu introduces himself and explains his role. The entire chapter appears in the 2009 issue of Stolen Island…
&Now 2009 – Images
As I noted in an earlier post, my effort to be polite and not use flash at sensitive moments left me with many unusable photos. These are the half-decent ones. Lesson learned: If you want a good photo, sometimes you have to be rude!
Ed Desautels' Maximum Fiction 