Joseph Patrick Pascale
Maxine Hong Kingston: Physical Writing Process
"Instead of a woman warrior with a sword, I could create one with a pen who would be just as dramatic." - Maxine Hong Kingston From...
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Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Oct 9, 2017
- 5 min
They’re Only Pretending to Use Urinals: Comic Literary Fiction
Witold Gombrowicz: Trans-Atlantyk Witold Gombrowicz’s novels are chock full of absurdity, so perhaps it’s natural that we find some...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Oct 2, 2017
- 3 min
Octavia Butler: Physical Writing Process
Inspiring Oneself Octavia Butler's groundbreaking writing continues to captivate readers as they rethink humanity and society through the...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Sep 25, 2017
- 7 min
Dalton Trumbo: Physical Writing Process
Writing in the Bathtub & the Duality of Screenwriter-Novelist Dalton Trumbo liked to write while he was in the bathtub. I wouldn’t say...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Sep 11, 2017
- 3 min
There Are No Cups in Kafka’s Amerika
“Sword? One supposes a mistake, since Kafka never saw the monument. Yet it grows increasingly clear that Karl has landed in a...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Sep 4, 2017
- 5 min
Jack Kerouac's Original On the Road Scroll
The American Writers' Museum's First Exhibit Features the legendary scroll manuscript of Kerouac's classic American novel. I first read...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Mar 2, 2016
- 6 min
Gogol’s Impossibilities of Imagination
Some reflections on magical realism via Nikolai Gogol It would be easy to brush aside the absurd impossibilities of Nikolai Gogol’s “The...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Aug 25, 2014
- 4 min
Donna Tartt: Physical Writing Process
Literary Talismans Literature as we tend to conceive of it exists in the realm of the mind, represented by little markings that are...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 6, 2014
- 4 min
Salman Rushdie and Timothy Garton Ash
Dialogue on Freedom of Expression at PEN World Voices Festival Salmon Rushdie sat down with his friend and colleague Timothy Garton Ash...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Mar 14, 2014
- 4 min
#TwitterFiction & the Art of Microfiction
I decided to write a quick blog entry after reading an article in The Millions by Elizabeth Minkel entitled, "Can #TwitterFiction...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Mar 8, 2014
- 7 min
The Author's Character
How much does the character of the author affect the work? Death and a Dictionary I recently read Simon Winchester’s The Professor and...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Feb 23, 2012
- 1 min
A Look @DB10’s Conceptual Fiction Folio w/ “Stranded” by Marcos Mataratas
This blog may not have been updated recently, but I wrote a post for Drunken Boat's blog the other day, which I thought I'd share here....
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Jul 15, 2011
- 3 min
George R. R. Martin Book Signing in NYC
George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, made an appearance at the Barnes & Noble in New York City's Union...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 15, 2011
- 3 min
Joyce & Borges: Physical Writing Process
The Physical Writing Process: James Joyce & Jorge Luis Borges - Writing With Eye Trouble I have the impression that the most iconic...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 9, 2011
- 4 min
Jonathan Franzen: Physical Writing Process
Destroy the Internet In a recent post I wrote, “I tend to type my novels directly into GoogleDocs so that they are constantly backed up...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Apr 28, 2011
- 3 min
William Gibson: Physical Writing Process
The Cyberpunk Future was Written on Hemingway’s Typewriter In my abandoned, unfinished novel RPGs Aren’t Censored, a character says, “The...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Apr 25, 2011
- 4 min
Jack Kerouac: Physical Writing Process
Whenever I encounter tales of the way writers physically sit down to write one of their books, I’m always fascinated. I like to imagine...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Dec 30, 2010
- 2 min
Creative Overgrowth
in a Windowsill Garden I am honored to have my work included in On A Narrow Windowsill: Fiction & Poetry Folded Onto Twitter alongside 42...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Nov 24, 2010
- 3 min
Love of Literature
and Hatred of Fellow Man: Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos I love the poetry of Ezra Pound, but it is unfortunate that he cast the tainted...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Jun 25, 2010
- 3 min
Ulysses
Oxford World's Classics Recently, I've been working on my novel The Bookstore Hobos, and I've amused myself by adding a minor, yet...
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