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, 20175 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20177 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20175 min read
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, 20166 min read
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, 20144 min read
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, 20144 min read
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, 20144 min read
#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, 20147 min read
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, 20121 min read
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, 20113 min read
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, 20113 min read
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, 20114 min read
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, 20113 min read
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, 20114 min read
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, 20102 min read
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, 20103 min read
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, 20103 min read
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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