14 Fictional Positions

by Eric Miles Williamson

Book by Williamson, Eric Miles

146 pages, Hardcover

First published October 18, 2010

About the author

Internationally acclaimed novelist and critic Eric Miles Williamson was named by France’s Transfuge magazine one of the “douze grands écrivains du monde”—one of the twelve great authors of the world. His first novel, East Bay Grease, was a PEN/Hemingway finalist, and its sequel, Welcome to Oakland, was named the second-best novel of 2009 and one of the top 40 novels of the decade by the Huffington Post. Senior Editor of Boulevard, Fiction Editor of Texas Review, and Associate Editor of American Book Review, Williamson served three terms on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle. He lives in the Rio Grande Valley.

Reviews

[John Lawson]

Don't like short stories? Well, just consider these short novels. Only read "genre?" Consider this the genre of "awesome." I missed out on the once-in-a-lifetime event that is Williamson for a decade. Please don't make the same mistake as me.

[Gerry LaFemina]

Eh, a bit too self-consciously experimental/post-modern for my own tastes. The book feels like a bunch of exercises more than a collection of finished wholes.

[John Molina]

Must read

[Sam Mauro]

65/100

feels like a collection of the most successful writing exercises by a great writer. there are worse things.