fragments

[from The Onion's interview with Stephen Wright]

"I write things down all the time, but I write pieces of things. I'm not a story guy. I want to do one at some point, but I have trouble with stories. I think of a scene, or some dialogue, but I don't know why this would happen, or what would happen 15 or 20 minutes after it."

That's pretty much what happens to me. too. More fiction snippets for dispersion at lunch.

fiction

( just a moment of somewhere. )

Ob. Lit. Crit.

Just started Black House, and my initial reaction (after having just re-read The Gunslinger over the weekend) is that it's wordy as fuck.

perhaps reading a draft of a screenplay for Neuromancer has my literary preferences skewed towards the brisk and austere (feel free to peruse the last half dozen entries here for my own stylistic wibblings), but i want to reach through the cover of the book and whack Straub & King's heads together and shout, "GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT."

meh. . .