Mutants Selected Essays |
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| Author:
| Litt, Toby |
| ISBN: | 978-0-85742-333-7 |
| Publication Date: | May 2016 |
| Publisher: | Seagull Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $27.50 |
Book Description:
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"I like fiction that seems to reinvent itself as it goes along - to change not only its rules but the premises on which those rules are based. This is a fiction that goes beyond metamorphosis and becomes, instead, a kind of seething, perpetual mutation." Literary hybrids, generic mash-ups--Toby Litt's short stories and novels have always taken mutant forms. Now, to give them some non-fictional company, he has gathered together a menagerie of the very best of his...
More Description"I like fiction that seems to reinvent itself as it goes along - to change not only its rules but the premises on which those rules are based. This is a fiction that goes beyond metamorphosis and becomes, instead, a kind of seething, perpetual mutation."
Literary hybrids, generic mash-ups--Toby Litt's short stories and novels have always taken mutant forms. Now, to give them some non-fictional company, he has gathered together a menagerie of the very best of his equally diverse essays on writing, on writers and on the technological world in which contemporary writing and writers exist. These are the instances when--either through a well-timed commission of only a couple of hundred words, or after an invitation to speak at length--he was about to make something that seemed alive, conceptually. Taken as a whole, they are a manifesto for a weirder, wilder, more wilful fiction.