Let me begin with a quote: The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands…
Always Crashing in the Same Car, by Lance Olsen
OH YOU PRETTY THINGS Humming something that came to him in red dreams, he considers, mid-shave, this man suddenly…
He Can’t Remember, He’s No Longer Sure, Maybe
By Lance Olsen I don’t remember much about the particular circumstances surrounding my stumbling upon Robert Coover’s Pricksongs &…
Beautiful Boy Falling, by Lance Olsen
You were there, only nobody saw you. This is what you are good at: not being there when you…
169 Tweets on the Nature of Possibility, by Lance Olsen
Follow most fiction-writing handbooks, and you’ll produce a well-crafted narrative that could have been produce just as easily in 1830.…
Lance Olsen’s “Literary Pillars”
1. Petronius, Satyricon (1st century A.D.) 2. Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, 1616). 3. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67) 4. Mary…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lance Olsen
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do…