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Maximum Fiction
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Ed Desautels lives, works, writes, and golfs in Pittsburgh, PA. He considers himself to be either a.) a writer with a golfing problem, or b.) a golfer with a writing problem. This blog focuses on the writing problem. It provides Ed a soapbox for talking about fiction in general and his work and activities in particular. He may occasionally post a sample from work in progress. Ed is author of the novel Flicker in the Porthole Glass (MAMMOTH Books, 2002). He is currently at work on Housebreaking the Muse, a novel haunted by the spirit of the French Dadaist, gigolo, addict, and suicide, Jacques Rigaut. He is also working on a mainstream golf novel titled Green and series of illustrated biofictional shorts called Evocations in collaboration with artist, musician, and fellow novelist Jeff Edmunds.
- Added on: Aug 24th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: MaxFiction
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Recent Posts
Craft Notes: Paul West’s Technical Advice for Fiction Writers, Part VIII
The novelist Paul West has had the greatest influence on my development as a writer. I first had the great fortune of encountering this member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winner of the Prix Médicis and the Lannan Literary Award for ...
William Burroughs – Thanksgiving Prayer
Looking back, absorbing now, casting a gaze toward the ugly red horizon, this is the liturgy we have left to us … as WSB said, “until the bare lies shine through”: To see Big Bad Bill read the whole thing in all his glory, watch th...
Craft Notes: Always with a Bit of Laughter
The following is excerpted from Manifesto: Maximalist Expressionism, or “Shut/-/Up(!) Fiction”. Always With a Bit of Laughter If there’s one thing I’ve taken from works of the authors I admire it’s the role humor and high-spiritedne...
Rigaut – Excerpt from Housebreaking the Muse (in progress)
Throughout my novel Housebreaking the Muse, numerous short chapters provide a glimpse into the mind of Jacques Rigaut on the night of his suicide, November 5-6, 1929. The following fragment is from an early draft of one such chapter. Rigaut I have lo...
Craft Notes: Paul West’s Technical Advice for Fiction Writers, Part VII
he novelist Paul West has had the greatest influence on my development as a writer. I first had the great fortune of encountering this member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winner of the Prix Médicis and the Lannan Literary Award for F...
More Off Topic: Halloween is for The Cramps
Picking up on my last post, I have to highlight The Cramps, whose amazing singer and founder, Lux Interior, left this mortal coil this very year, 2009. RIP LUX. Here we have The Cramps performing “Call of the Wighat,” one of the best rock...
