William Walsh's Blog
November 24, 2009
Just in time for the Holidays! Keyhole Press has made Questionstruck available in a Kindle edition at Amazon.com. Price is $4.99.
Sample question: "Why can't somebody write my books for me and just leave me to collect the royalties in peace?" (from Trillin's Too Soon to Tell, 1995)
Questionstruck/Kindle.
November 23, 2009
Short-short called "Chaos" appearing in Quick Fiction 16. You can read the first few lines here.
Quick Fiction is a handsomely designed journal, and I'm proud to be in the company of Jim Ruland, Kim Chinquee, Aaron Burch, Barry Graham, Claudia Smith, Myfanwy Collins, the great Kathy Fish, and others.
Can't wait to get my copy. Order yours here.
November 18, 2009
Barber vs Heart Disease trailer on Vimeo. Annalemma produced this great trailer for Barber vs Heart Disease, which is in their current issue. My thanks to Chris Heavener and his collaborators.
November 17, 2009
New short called "Beggars Can't" up today at Suss, which is part of of Lintel, Sash, and Sill Press.
November 4, 2009
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 Joyce's who said that the author had "a descriptive lust" in his approach to teaching English to his Itali...
October 16, 2009
New text called Tramp up now at The Outlet, Electric Literature's new blog.
Tramp is derived from one of David Markson's early detective novels. I excised lines that sounded a lot like Markson's later work--like Reader's Block, This is Not a Novel, Vanishing Point, and The Last Novel--to make a new narrative.
Check it out...
October 11, 2009
October 6, 2009
Short-short called "Muse" featured this week at Night Train. It's like this:
"The television at the bar had on a reality show set in a tattoo parlor, which inspired those at the bar to begin showing their tattoos to one another, to share their subtexts."
September 15, 2009
August 27, 2009
I missed this review of Without Wax when it came out in The Florida Review (Winter 2008). Chris Wiewiora, Assistant Editor of The Florida Review, gave it a very thorough read. Scroll to bottom of the issue's Table of Contents, the review link will appear in a neat java window.
