Of Elsewhere
Warren Tusk and I have been friends and exchanged writing for more than a decade, and I remain enormously grateful not only for many intellectual exchanges but also for his feedback and encouragement as both of us find our way (at long last) into the world of traditional publishing. In the book this interview discusses […]
As of last month, Apocryphile Press has brought out The Falling Tower (available as an ebook and a paperback on Amazon and elsewhere), my Charles Williams-inspired novel in which Charles Williams himself (or, at least, his postmortem poetic Voice) is a character. I am also — almost — a character, in that at least two […]
Huge news in a short post: I signed a contract with Apocryphile Press (https://apocryphilepress.com/) for The Falling Tower, a novella-length metaphysical thriller in the tradition of Charles Williams…in which Charles Williams is a character! It starts when, for Reasons (namely, the reinvention of the Adamic tongue, in which the connection between signifiers and referents is […]
Out of Tales (yes, novel is a dubious word for it, but close enough, perhaps) has been liberated. It was exciting and exhausting to produce. I’m taking stock now, as I’ve sold some copies and gotten my first feedback post-publication (I’ve talked to six readers now). Responses are mixed. I’ve had a reader who preferred […]
After somewhere between a year’s and more than half my life’s labor (depending where you draw the lines), I have finally released the first volume of Of Evernost, namely Out of Tales, or January. Feeling anxious and full of doubt, but proud for all that. It’s been a lot of work and love. In addition, […]
Today I’m talking about what was for me the most fun part of Out of Tales, my braided not-exactly-novel I’m releasing on July 15: the “Jennie sections,” the non-novelistic prose. These are a mix of essay and memoir-through-a-funhouse-mirror. They’re pretty dense and abstract — one early reader said, even abstruse. The essay bits discuss (in […]
This year, as I edit Out of Tales, I’m finally getting around to two old bookstore finds: The World Is Round by Gertrude Stein and HERmione by H.D. The first is a children’s book. I would have said “ostensibly” a children’s book, because it’s written in very strange, Steinian, Cubist-inspired prose, the plot and characters […]
If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you know I try to engage with poetry off and on. I came to reading and writing poetry much later than prose, so I’m not as good at it, but I keep trying, and last year I wrote poems in January — in January and […]
There are three main parts to Out of Tales: the poetry, the essayistic prose, and what I mentioned I call the “Normal Novel,” though it is neither normal nor a novel, being three rather subversively plotted overlapping novelettes from the points of view of three different characters. The Normal Novel is the oldest part (I […]
There are many ways I could start today’s post, but let’s aim for the concrete and immediate: I hope to bring out a book this year (intended release date 7/15, but I’m vacillating: do I need more revision time and fallow time to deepen and strengthen it? will I give into convention and look for […]
Of Elsewhere 