William Walsh
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born
March 12, 1964
gender
male
place of birth
Attleboro, The United States
website
genre
Literature & Fiction
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Joyce, Bukowski, DeLillo, Amis...
member since
November 2007
about this author
William Walsh is the author of Questionstruck: A Collection of Question-based Texts Derived from the Books of Calvin Trillin and Without Wax: A Documentary Novel. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Annalemma, Quick Fiction, PANK, NO COLONY, Night Train, New York Tyrant, Caketrain, Juked, Keyhole, Elimae, LIT, Press, Pear Noir, Rosebud, Fringe, Pequin, Exquisite Corpse, Word Riot, Quarterly West, Crescent Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and other journals.
Reviews of Without Wax have appeared in Gently Read Literature , NewPages, Rain Taxi, BlogCritics, and Matt Bell's LitBlog. And check out my Book Notes mixtape for Without Wax at Largehearted Boy.
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35 postsWilliam Walsh's Blog
Piece called "A Descriptive Lust," derived from Giacomo Joyce, by James Joyce, is featured in issue 33 of The Scrambler.Published posthumously, Giacomo Joyce is a series of notes by Joyce about a student of his in Trieste. Joyce had quite an intense crush on this young lady. I've reduced the text to its base descriptive elements. The title comes from a comment made by another student of... ...more
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Without Wax: A Documentary Novel by William Walsh (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.58 — 26 ratings — published 2008 |
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Keyhole 6 by William Walsh (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.40 — 20 ratings — published 2009 |
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Questionstruck: A Collection of Question-Based Texts Derived from the Books of Calvin Trillin by William Walsh (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.53 — 17 ratings — published 2009 |
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"Good stuff throughout, esp. two shorts by Roert Lopez, Steve McDermott's story, the excerpt from Coop Renner's werewolf novel, and Samantha Arlotta's narrative poems.
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'Lincolnesque' just means tall?"
— Calvin Trillin (Enough's Enough)
'Lincolnesque' just means tall?"
— Calvin Trillin (Enough's Enough)
"Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?"
— Calvin Trillin (Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco)
— Calvin Trillin (Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco)
"Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?"
— Calvin Trillin (Too Soon To Tell)
— Calvin Trillin (Too Soon To Tell)
"By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?"
— Calvin Trillin (Enough's Enough)
— Calvin Trillin (Enough's Enough)
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hi William--thanks for the add--Jeff and I will come to the Keyhole reading--looking forward to meeting you! And I want to read Questionstruck.
