Questionstruck traces the line of questioning throughout Calvin Trillin's first twenty-five books, compiling all of Trillin's interrogatives--the rhetorical, the political, and the victual--into one dizzying collection. Echoing Trillin's food and travel books, his reports in The New Yorker, and his political verse in The Nation, Questionstruck is an inventive and experimental text that begs to be defined. "Master re-contextualizer William Walsh has pulled off an unlikely feat: he didn't write a word of this book, and yet its twisted pleasures couldn't possibly belong to anyone else. He has managed to transform the collected works of Calvin Trillin into some kind of whacked-out koan, a strangely compelling harangue that will leave you dumbstruck." --J. Robert Lennon, author of Mailman, and The Funnies
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William Walsh is the author of Without Wax: A Documentary Novel. His fiction and derived texts have appeared in New York Tyrant, Caketrain, Juked, Rosebud, Quarterly West, Lit, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and other journals.
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William Walsh is the author of the books Ampersand, Mass., Pathologies, Questionstruck (all from Keyhole Press) and Without Wax (Casperian Books). His work has appeared in a number of journals, including Annalemma, Quick Fiction, Rosebud, Quarterly West, Caketrain, Juked, New York Tyrant, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He is the editor of RE:Telling (Ampersand Books), a collection of literary fan fictions featuring the work of 30 authors. Unknown Arts, a book of texts and poems drawn from the works of James Joyce is forthcoming.
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I loved Walsh's debut novel Without Wax, and think this book, while completely different in every way, was just as enjoyable, once I learned how to read it: Its pages are derived from the works of Calvin Trillin, resulting in new pieces that compile and arrange Trillin's questions into new lines of thought and inquiry, creating a brand new effect that is both interesting as a product and evocative and witty as literature. This is actual experimental writing, unlike so much of what claims that tag, and impressively done. Having read much of Walsh's recently published work, it's interesting to see how much of his intellect and humor and heart I can sense behind these pages. Using selection and arrangement, he's the one creating the new experience of reading these now out-of-context questions, and while the words in Questionstruck were written by Trillin, there's no doubt that the experience is all Walsh, and brilliantly so.
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This book contains nothing but questions extracted from Trillin's books. No answers, no analysis, no semblance of anything of worth. It reads like a foolish assignment from a clueless 8th-grade Englsih teacher. If there had been a "look inside" feature on the website, its worthlessness would have been evident. I am a longtime fan of Trillin's, and think he should sue the author for tarnishing his reputation. -- RM in NYC
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