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Questionstruck: A Collection of Question-Based Texts Derived from the Books of Calvin Trillin
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William Walsh (Goodreads Author)
Questionstruck traces the line of questioning throughout Calvin Trillin’s twenty-five books, compiling all of Trillin's interrogatives—the rhetorical, the political, and the victual—into one dizzying collection.
Echoing Trillin's food and travel books, his reports in The New Yorker, and his political verse in The Nation, Questionstruck is an inventive and experi...more
Echoing Trillin's food and travel books, his reports in The New Yorker, and his political verse in The Nation, Questionstruck is an inventive and experi...more
Paperback, 174 pages
Published
March 10th 2009
by Keyhole Press
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This book makes cognitive dissonance harmonious.
Fascinating and discombobulating experimental novel. I've never read a "derived" or "recontextualized" work before, but this held my interest with the sheer relentlessness of the voice.
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Questionstruck is not just a loving, crazy, fragmented tribute to the work of Calvin Trillin, but a celebration of all things political, familial, edible, and textual, both dense and wonderful, and bordering on poetry.
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William Walsh is the author of Pathologies, Questionstruck, and Without Wax: A Documentary Novel. His work has appeared in Annalemma, Artifice, 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 journa...more
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