Joseph Patrick Pascale
Handwritten Book Journal on Nepali Lokta Paper
This is a book journal I started back in 2009. I couldn't pass on the unique, natural look and feel of the lokta Paper from Nepal. I...
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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 18, 20174 min read
Brier Rose Books in Teaneck, NJ - My Favorite Bookstore
This blog makes it clear that I'm really into bookstores, and I've been to bookstores throughout North America and even parts of Europe....
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 20, 20131 min read
“If I used a poem to break out,
I can use a poem to sneak in.” "Forbidden Welcome" - a short story of poets, philosophers, and a totalitarian government with a robot -...
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
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
May 2, 20113 min read
Neal Stephenson: Physical Writing Process
Fountain Pen and Malfunctioning Typewriter Neal Stephenson started out writing on a typewriter, but when he began work on The Baroque...
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
Aug 21, 20102 min read
"Wayfinder: Home of the Lýkos"
and "To Live a Life That is Not My Own" by Suany Cañarte It's been a big publishing week for the author Suany Cañarte. Finally, some of...
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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