So here’s a little bit of Pepperland, read on the evening of February 3, 2010 in Chicago at the Reading Under the Influence monthly session at the Sheffield. If you’re anywhere close to Chicago, you oughta go sometime. Pepperland is set in Chicago during the winter of 1974 and it’s about the intersection of rock […]
Posts Tagged ‘literary fiction’
Area man reads novel excerpt
Friday, February 5th, 2010Personal dig
Monday, December 21st, 2009Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Aristotle, in the Poetics, said that the worst kind of plot was the episodic—the kind where not much happens, it’s just one damn thing after another. I frankly don’t agree with the ancient Greek and am just fine with episodic plots (isn’t that the way life really is?) and I […]
The Zig of DFW…
Friday, November 21st, 2008The great Modernists (Joyce, Eliot, Lawrence, Woolf) zigged away from tradition and rewrote the book. Depth over surface. David Lodge, in Consciousness and the Novel, wrote about a literary shift, a zag, that occurred in fiction with the late Modernists (early postmodernists?) to more extended dialogue, more surface work–something that wouldn’t have happened without the influence […]
