Grey Fiction
Stephen PiccarellaWriting fiction and its opposites for n+1, The Nation, The Baffler, and now Substack.
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Hell Earth Epilogue
As I mentioned in a previous post, at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic I edited and self-published a “crowd-sourced systems novel” about the quarantine experience called Hell Earth Catalog (I am about four years behind on my payments f...
2001 (Excerpt)
Improbably enough, the periodic sentence, a vestigial stylistic hallmark of 18th century English prose, has recently become a topic of conversation in certain far-flung corners of the literary Internet. Even more improbably, a peer has requ...
Noise Translation: John Barth, “Echo”
A homemade tape loop fed between two empty cassette shells
In one of my earlier posts, I detailed a process called “noise translation” by which I produced a dadaist revision of the story “Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction” from John B...
The 9 Books I’ll Never Forget
I have a vexed relationship with the popular practice of listing books or other works of art based on personal significance, but of course I’m as much of a sucker as anyone for a chance to relive my formation as a reader and a writer. Since...
Ten Short Stories I Started and Never Finished
The short story form has always puzzled me. I’ve written plenty and published a few, but in general I’ve never found it to be the ideal narrative form. Why create a world if no one will ever live in it for more than ten minutes? Still, I li...
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