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Review of Architectures of Possibility
Hubert O'Hearn has written a terrific review of Architectures of Possibility for By the Book Reviews. Here is a snapshot:
"It has been my opinion for at least twenty years that the only two indispensable books on writing are The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White (he who wrote Stuart Little among many other wonderful works) and H. F. Fowler’s Modern English Usage. If you, dear writer, haven’t virtually memorized both, please get out of the profession and go make a YouTube video featuring cats doing mildly amusing things.
However, I am bumping those two books down the podium and crowning Lance Olsen’s book as the single best advisory to writers I have ever encountered. This is an absolutely masterful text. Oh, it can be heavy lifting in places. When on the very first page you bump head-on into the phrase ‘the Balzacian Mode’ you know that we aren’t in the land of cheery Bugs Bunny cartoons. Many references and analyses of Big Boy writers like Samuel Beckett, Roland Barthes and the like will leave anyone who thinks John Grisham is a classic novelist writhing in the dust of their opinions. That all said, this is a practical, helpful guide to turning out memorable fiction, poetry, or dare I say it journalism."
"It has been my opinion for at least twenty years that the only two indispensable books on writing are The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White (he who wrote Stuart Little among many other wonderful works) and H. F. Fowler’s Modern English Usage. If you, dear writer, haven’t virtually memorized both, please get out of the profession and go make a YouTube video featuring cats doing mildly amusing things.
However, I am bumping those two books down the podium and crowning Lance Olsen’s book as the single best advisory to writers I have ever encountered. This is an absolutely masterful text. Oh, it can be heavy lifting in places. When on the very first page you bump head-on into the phrase ‘the Balzacian Mode’ you know that we aren’t in the land of cheery Bugs Bunny cartoons. Many references and analyses of Big Boy writers like Samuel Beckett, Roland Barthes and the like will leave anyone who thinks John Grisham is a classic novelist writhing in the dust of their opinions. That all said, this is a practical, helpful guide to turning out memorable fiction, poetry, or dare I say it journalism."
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Guide Dog Books at AWP
We're very excited for the debut of Lance Olsen's Architectures of Possibility at the AWP writing convention in Chicago this weekend. Nearly 10,000 writers, teachers, students and artistes are expected to attend, among them Lance himself as well as D. Harlan Wilson, the author of GDB's Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction, and Stan Ashenbach, GDB's managing editor. Copies of Architectures of Possibility will be available in the dealer room at the table of independent publisher Fiction Collective 2.
The Cafe Irreal Anthology
Recently the editors of The Cafe Irreal signed a contract with us to publish an anthology of their fiction and nonfiction. We're thrilled about this project. Based in Prague, The Cafe Irreal has been around for over a decade and put out some of the most innovative writing in the twenty-first century, and in 2008, the editors, G.S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg, were nominated for a World Fantasy Award. We're happy to have them aboard the GDB train!
Press Release for Architectures of Possibility
Here is the official press release for Lance Olsen's upcoming Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing.
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