A01=John Haskell
Author_John Haskell
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experimental fiction
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Product details
- ISBN 9781573662147
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2025
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The stories in John Haskell's Trying to Be wrestle in exhilarating ways with the relationships between fiction and other arts- painting, film, dance- in a manner that feels natural and seamless. Painter, narrator, spectator, reader, writer- it doesn't matter which. What matters is how they speak and think and create in relation to each other, always shifting, always refashioning themselves. Haskell's narrators are porous- to these other art forms, to the past, to other people and characters. It is perhaps this permeability that forms them, and part of what forms the stories themselves.
John Haskell' s books include I Am Not Jackson Pollock, American Purgatorio, Out of My Skin, and The Complete Ballet. He is a writer and contributing editor at BOMB and A Public Space. He is the recipient of NYFA grants and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He has taught writing and literature in Los Angeles, New York, and Leipzig.
