Tag: bizarro

• Inside the Head of D. Harlan Wilson

   It is harder than you might think to write good Bizarro fiction. Practically anyone can conjure up a weird scene about people with goat heads or a beard crawling off someone’s face, but few can write about it with the crisply entertaining panache of D. Harlan Wilson. Wilson’s novel, Peckinpah  (2009, Shroud Publishing), is described…

  Bill Ectric

  August 28, 2016

  bizarro, cyberpunk, D. Harlan Wilson, Hayakawa’s Mystery Magazine, Kafka, Peckinpah, scikungfi, The Kafka Effekt

• The Aylett Project: Rachel Kendall Interviews Bill Ectric

  Rachel Kendall of Sein und Werden interviewed me about the new collection of essays on the work of Steve Aylett, edited by me and D. Harlan Wilson. Here’ an excerpt: Rachel Kendall: A number of writers in the anthology refer to Aylett as a writers’ writer. What does that mean to you, and do you…

  Bill Ectric

  July 14, 2016

  Alan Moore, anthology, art, bizarro, D. Harlan Wilson, literary criticism, Literary Kicks, metafiction, publishing, Rachel Kendall, Science Fiction, science fiction studies, Sein Und Werden, steve aylett

• Irrealality

  Bill Ectric

  March 16, 2016

  bizarro, books, D. Harlan Wilson, experimental literature, Irreal, John Edward Lawson

• Jeremy C. Shipp – Light, Darkness, Imagination, and Ectoplasm

     Jeremy Shipp is a writer with staying power. I’ve only read one of his novels, the surreal Vacation, but I’ve been reading collections of his short stories, which I’ve downloaded onto my Kindle iPhone app, and looking forward to more. I only recently became aware of this 2010 interview  with Mr. Shipp by Richard…

  Bill Ectric

  June 30, 2013

  Attic Toys, bizarro, horror, horror writers, Jeremy C. Shipp, macabre, Richard Romero, short stories, Vacation, Yuma Sun

• Inside the Head of D. Harlan Wilson

  It is harder than you might think to write good Bizarro fiction. Practically anyone can conjure up a weird scene about people with goat heads or a beard crawling off someone’s face, but few can write about it with the crisply entertaining panache of D. Harlan Wilson. Wilson’s novel, Peckinpah (2009, Shroud Publishing), is described…

  Bill Ectric

  September 16, 2011

  bizarre, bizarro, Brandon Duncan, Codename Prague, cyberpunk, D. Harlan Wilson, Kafka, Peckinpah, Raw Dog Screaming Press, Sam Peckinpah, scikungfi, steve aylett, Surrealism, The Kafka Effect