Paul La Farge: more fictive than ever
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January 13, 2012
Hey, I am on the CBC this week, talking about what happened to hypertext fiction, and making incoherent generalizations about literature. Does appearing on Canadian radio increase my chances of getting Canadian citizenship, if something goes wrong down here?
December 22
This goes out to everyone in the Los Angeles listening area: I’ll be on Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm radio program at 2:30 today. KCRW, 89.9 FM. Or listen at kcrw.com.
December 9
This just in from the office of Please Don’t Make Paul La Farge Read To Yet Another Empty Room: I will be reading on Sunday, December 18th at KGB (85 East 4th St., NYC), at 7pm. And on Monday the 18th I’ll read in the Fiction Addiction series: 25 Avenue A, NYC, at 8pm. Prizes will be given to anyone who attends both. Valuable prizes!
December 8
One morning in October, Peter Orner and I got together for breakfast in San Francisco. We talked about obsession, local politics, people kissing, and the fact that neither of us ever finished Tristram Shandy. The result of our conversation is in BOMB, on newsstands (newsstands?) December 15, or (partially) online here.
December 4, 2011
According to Flavorwire, Luminous Airplanes is one of the most “criminally overlooked books of 2011”—maybe even the most criminally overlooked book of the year. How nice it is to imagine a world where overlooking a book was a crime! We’d have to build prisons from one coast clear to the other, just to hold all the people convicted of it.
The recent past has recently been moved. You can find it here.
about
Paul La Farge is the author of two novels: The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999) and Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001), and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter (McSweeney's Books, 2005). He is the grateful recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Harper’s, Fence, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. His nonfiction appears in The Believer, Bookforum, and Cabinet.
He lives in upstate New York with his army of robots.
writing
Potentially Endless
Long
Short
- “Utopia,” an essay about utopia, in Bookforum. Warning: you will have to register with Bookforum to read this essay. The good news is, it will cost you nothing.
- “Colors: Black,” an essay about the color black, in Cabinet.
- “The History of The History of Death,” a story in Conjunctions, which was later reprinted in Harper’s.
- “Destroy All Monsters,” an essay about the game Dungeons & Dragons, in The Believer.
- Nine short stories published by the Paraffin Press, but basically unavailable until now.
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- Questions or comments? Send them along to comments@paullafarge.com