Peckinpah
Category: Writing and Poetry

I have been contracted to write PECKINPAH for Shroud Publishing's Signature Novella Series. Here's a brief description:

"Life in Dreamfield, Indiana, is a daily harangue of pigs, cornfields, pigs, fast food joints, pigs, Dollar Stores, motorcycles, pigs, and good old-fashioned Amerikan redneckery. The decidedly estranged yet complacent occupants of this proverbial smalltown go about their business like geriatrics in a casino . . . until their business is interrupted by a sinister gang of outsiders. Angry, slick-talking, and ultraviolent to the core, Samson Thataway and the Fuming Garcias commit art-for-art's-sake in the form of hideous, unmotivated serial killings. When an unsuspecting everyman's family is murdered by the throng, it is up to Felix Soandso to avenge their deaths and return Dreamfield to its natural state of absurdity."

Look for PECKINPAH in 2009.

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Blurb for Technologized Desire

Harold Jaffe—editor of FICTION INTERNATIONAL, professor of English and comparative studies at San Diego State University, and prolific novelist and "guerilla writer"—has blurbed TECHNOLOGIZED DESIRE:

"Describing an impressively wide arc from high-toned cultural theory to cyberpunk fiction to techno-centered cinema, Wilson advances his theory that 'the only choice available to the postmodern subject ... is rooted in a dependency on ... the ultraviolent schizophrenic production of the commodity-self.' TECHNOLOGIZED DESIRE is a bright, brazen, evocative reading of technology, the body, and the art that is inaccurately labeled science 'fiction'."

See Jaffe's schtick online at www.jaffeantijaffe.com.

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Review & Article

BOOKLIST has this to say about BLANKETY BLANK:

"With three offbeat story collections and the indescribably madcap DR. IDENTITY (2007) to his credit, Wilson has been duly anointed as speculative fiction's most unpredictable stylist. Here he flouts all novelistic conventions and propriety in recounting the misdeeds of a serial killer known only by a name written in blood on the walls of his victims' manicured homes—Blankety Blank. In the mid-twenty-first century, the American landscape has morphed from suburbia into "vulgaria," featuring neighborhoods replete with shopping malls and oversized McMansions. Quiggle Estates resident Rutger Van Trout just wants to enjoy his newly built silo in peace, without the added distractions of a nymphomaniac daughter, a werewolf-obsessed son, and a wife haunted by her own skeleton. Then Blankety Blank leaves his trail of blood across vulgaria, and it's up to Rutger and Quiggle Estates' odd assortment of faux superheroes to save everyone. Wilson sprinkles his rapid-fire narrative with glib aphorisms, absurdist pseudo-historical tidbits, and outlandish digressions that leave a reader breathless. Although this isn't everyone's cup, iconoclasts will relish every word."

Additionally, there is a wonderful article in THE SPECUSPHERE (www.specusphere.com) based on an interview with me in which I talk about BLANKETY BLANK, Bizarro, Pangea II, and more: "Irrealism and the Bizarro Movement". Here is the link:

http://www.specusphere.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=558&Itemid=31

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New Reviews & Publications

I have a new piece of creative microcriticism, "Technicity and the Pathological Turn," in No. 34 of University of Idaho's FUGUE.

There is a new review of BLANKETY BLANK in the latest issue of CHIZINE (www.chizine.com).

PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY recently had this to say about DR. IDENTITY: "Readers with a taste for wacky experimental fiction will enjoy D. Harlan Wilson's DR. IDENTITY, OR, FAREWELL TO PLAQUEDEMIA: A PULP SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, set in the postcapitalist city of Bliptown."

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New Reviews of Blankety Blank

There are two new reviews of my upcoming novel, Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria, in Fiction Factor and decomP Magazine. The review in decomP is followed by an interview. Here are the links:

http://www.fictionfactor.com/reviews/blanketyblank.html
http://decompmagazine.com/areviewofwilsonsblanketyblank.htm

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New Review of Blankety Blank

There is a new review of Blankety Blank in the latest issue of Sussurus Magazine in which my writing is compared to the wired, weird rants of The Ultimate Warrior. High praise indeed.

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Pre-Order Blankety Blank

My upcoming novel, Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria, is now available for pre-order directly from Raw Dog Screaming Press. There is a $5 discount for the hardcover, which will be printed in August, and a $2 discount for the paperback, which will be available in 2009. The url is www.rawdogscreaming.com/blank.html.

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Bizarro Fiction Night

Join me, Eckhard Gerdes, David Agranoiff and Garrett Cook for Bizarro Fiction Night at Quimby's Bookstore on July 10 in Chicago. Here's the press release in the Chicaco Reader:

Four of the leading members of the hottest new literary movement in America will be reading from their works at 7 pm, Thursday, July 10, at 1854 W. North Avenue in Chicago, in beautiful Wicker Park.

Come meet and hear Bizarro Fiction writers Eckhard Gerdes, D. Harlan Wilson, Garrett Cook, and David Agranoff read from their new books. Expose yourself to the this vibrant new literary movement! Trenchcoats optional. Refreshments will be free.

The Bizarros present ...

Eckhard Gerdes is the author of My Landlady the Lobotomist, The Million-Year Centipede, and Przewalski's Horse. Eckhard publishes The Journal of Experimental Fiction. At times, he writes about literature for The Review of Contemporary Fiction, American Book Review, and Electronic Book Review. His fiction appears in various journals every now and then.

D. Harlan Wilson is the author of Dr. Identity, Pseudo-City, The Kafka Effekt, and Stranger on the Loose. Currently he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a journal of Bizarro literature, and is contributing editor for Guide Dog Books.

David Agranoff is the author of Screams from a Dying World.

Garrett Cook is the author of Murderland Part 1: h8.

Bring your rubber chickens!  For more info: www.bizarrocentral.com

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Reviews of Blankety Blank

There are two short, preliminary reviews of Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Viulgaria available from Word Press and Fractal Matter.

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Horrorfind 10

In August, I'm attending Horrorfind Weened 10, where Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Viulgaria will debut. Among the con's guests are actors Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Planet Terror), "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (They Live) and William Forsythe (The Devil's Rejects, Halloween 2007) and authors Jack Ketchum, Michael Arnzen and Edward Lee. Click HERE for a full list of guests.

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