K.I. Press's Blog, page 15

"If what's always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world that's clichéd and..."

"If what's always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world that's clichéd and not recognizably human, etc.— is also a description of today's world, then bad writing becomes an ingenious mimesis of a bad world. If readers simply believe the world is stupid and shallow and mean, then [Bret Easton] Ellis can write a mean shallow stupid novel that becomes a mordant deadpan commentary on the badness of everything. Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."

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David Foster Wallace

I've always like this man

(via howfreeitis)

Last Trivial Pursuit Poem For The Time Being

Africa's
Band on the Run

Four

Tattoos

By the scruff of the neck

Five-card Poker

"My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met."

"My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met."

- Jonathan Safran Foer (via saddest-summer)

This one is vaguely dirty

Claridge's

Seven

Spain

Superman

Testicles

Eight feet

Capacious Project

Capacious Project:

A link to a post I did years ago on Shawna Lemay's blog The Capacious Project, where people write about handbags.

This one's political

West Berlin

Mrs. Robinson

Ronald Reagan

Blonde

Meltdown

Two under par on a hole

"Library"

"Library":

Just an old post of a poem from one of my books, on my publisher's blog.

This one sounds deep

Moscow

Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity

Jimmy Carter

Charlie Chan

Life, heart, fate, head

Poker

An old poem and interview with me in the CanLit Poets Archive

An old poem and interview with me in the CanLit Poets Archive

Wait, no, this one is my favourite Trivial Pursuit Poem...

A sausage

Tony Curtis

The Dionne Quintuplets

About

The binary system

Two