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Slippery Devils
Award-winning writer Jason Bellipanni's first comprehensive short story collection brings together fifteen years of acclaimed work. Many of these stories have appeared in literary journals, university texts, and international anthologies—including his widely-used literature text 50 Stories: How to Read and Write Experimental Fiction. Now, for the first time, they're collected in a single volume for general readers.
Bellipanni crafts utterly original stories with a distinctive voice and masterful command of language. Each piece balances intellectual depth with emotional resonance, creating narratives that are both thought-provoking and deeply felt.
What critics say:
Patrick McCabe (Booker-nominated author): Calls the work "courageous and fastidious...a writer well worth watching."
Dean Bakopoulos: Praises Bellipanni as "a dazzling writer...wholly original" whose "formidable and impressive" concepts are "woven into thematically rich but accessible narratives."
Lewis Robinson: Notes how the stories "gather momentum through accumulation of ingenious detail" and are "driven by ideas and informed by experience."
These stories will stay with you long after you finish the final page.
The Naked Story
Despite the vast differences among the various types of experimental fiction, each seeks to explore the less accessible, yet no less true, areas of human experience.
They all operate on the principle that the limits imposed on realistic fiction make it ill-suited to the discovery of the deeper truths about being human. Possibly the most enduring consequence of experimental fiction is that the work forces the reader to shift in their approach to fiction.
Confronted with metafiction, the reader is blocked from traditional interpretation and forced to look elsewhere for the story's meaning. Successful interpretation of a metafictional story depends on the reader's ability to shift their focus and expectations as they read. This means that the reader must locate the place in the story that contains the meaning or at least the author's intention.
A reader's approach to a metafictional story will determine whether they succeed. This book attempts to present original examples of metafiction, along with brief explications of its purpose and intention.
Fifty Stories
"Despite the vast differences that exist among the various types of extreme or experimental fiction, each type seeks to explore the less accessible, but no less true, areas of human experience. They all operate on the principle that the limits imposed on realistic fiction, make it ill-suited to the discovery of the deeper truths about being human. Possibly the most enduring consequence of experimental fiction is that the work forces the reader to shift in their approach to fiction. The reader is blocked from traditional interpretation and forced to look for the meaning of the story in a different place. Successful interpretation of an extreme story is dependent on the reader's ability to shift their focus and their expectations as they begin to read the story. This means that the reader must locate the place in the story which contains the meaning or at least, the author's intention. A reader's approach to a story will determine whether or not the reader succeeds. This book attempts to present experimental fiction along with brief comments about the purpose and intention of 4 types of extreme fiction: Science Fiction, Surrealism, Absurdism, and Metafiction."