'Coruscated Confabulations' is a collection of stories and experiences, most of which took place in prior decades. They are taken from or based upon real events, with a certain admixture of fictional embellishments.
My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
Purple Jesus (novel, Bancroft Press, 2010) was called by the Washington Post "a literary event of the first magnitude" and "perfectly written." Hume's Fork (novel, Bancroft Press, 2007) has been described as what Jean-Paul Sartre would have written had he grown up in the Deep South, as Walker Percy for rednecks, and as the book that fans of A Confederacy of Dunces have been waiting for. Literary influences: Walker Percy, John Kennedy Toole, Padgett Powell, Harry Crews, Flannery O'Connor, Barry Hannah, Salman Rushdie
Birth Place
Moncks Corner, SC USA
Accomplishments
Hume's Fork was a finalist for the Bread Loaf Writers Conference's Bakeless Literary Prize and the Dana Award for Fiction
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