MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

Here’s a passage from Gilbert Sorrentino on lists and fictive creation: The List: Let me propose the idea of a list of questions formulated about a given character and so proposed without complementary answers to the questions. This list forms a kind of discontinuous, scattered narrative unit. The questions allow us to fill in the [...]

A few years ago, William Gass published an essay (now found in his essay collection Tests of Time) called “I’ve Got a Little List”. In it he muses over that form so often used in life and literature but rarely (that I have seen) examined, the list. He starts with a song from The Mikado [...]