Paul Jessup

It’s an oroborus of logic! Eating it’s own tail! Well, we’ve all heard all those things over and over again from both sides. Genre people saying how Literary folks hate their guts and think they’re lesser fictions. And then you have some sick genre response, saying that literary fiction people are all snobs, and that … Continue reading »

My poet/writer/editor/ninja friend Tim Miller just sent me an awesome package in the mail- a bunch of stuff I’d written just out of Highschool, and a lot of this stuff I completely forgot about it entirely. There was some plays, a screenplay for a movie based on SteppenWolf called For Madmen Only that took place in modern … Continue reading »

I wanted it to look like a poster for an indie film, heh. That same kind of minimalism.  Anyway, I need to add some novels/anthologies I’m in to the rotator up there, as well as adding in a links page and some other stuff. Fix the links on the bibliography, since I just cut and pasted … Continue reading »

I’m going to be changing the format of this website, etc, and perhaps removing and moving and displaying and changing things. I’m going to take out old things, replace with new things. Maybe have things dance with ceiling things. Or who knows things. I have to cull and cut things, make them paper doll things. … Continue reading »

Some thoughts In a way, cults, utopian societies, etc, are trying to take secondary worlds and make them real. Scientology more so than anything else, since it was created by a science fiction writer, and the cult reads like an sf-novel turned reality. I remember Burroughs saying something like that, after he left Scientology. That … Continue reading »

So, I just finished reading Banana Yoshimoto’s The Lake and Murakami’s IQ84, as well as watching both Mary Last Seen and Martha Marcy May Marlene. Cults have always been a weird little interest of mine, I’m not sure how or why I started becoming intrigued in them, but it seems like I’ve always been. I’ve had my brush with quiet a … Continue reading »

Interesting article here- http://thephoenix.com/Boston/arts/135418-realists-guide-to-experimental-fiction/ Personally, I don’t agree with anything she says. She seems to take insult at experimental writers (something I see a lot of in genre fiction readers as well) as if the writer- by handing her the freedom of personal interpretation, and giving her equal ground in the writer/reader relationship, has somehow slighted … Continue reading »

Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life. From- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html?pagewanted=all

Another great post here on experimental fiction- http://htmlgiant.com/craft-notes/the-higgs-jameson-experimental-fiction-debate-part-2/ I’d have to say,  Christopher Higgs is putting into words things I’ve been thinking about for the last few years. I’ve noticed a tendency for writers to be only concerned with writers, and the writing side of things, and not seeing the reader as a part of … Continue reading »