by David Gates
First published 2016
This collection brings together more than 40 pieces that David Gates kept in his drawer while writing his acclaimed novels. The stories range across different forms and subjects. Some are complete short stories with full narrative arcs. Others are experimental scripts and film reviews that show Gates working in different modes. The poems reveal a more compressed side of his writing. Gates wrote these pieces over many years, and they show his development as a writer. The collection includes work from before he published Access Denied, The Roots of Evil, and Omonolidee. Readers see Gates experimenting with voice, trying out characters, and exploring themes that would later appear in his novels. The unpublished nature of these pieces gives them an intimate quality, as if readers are looking through a writer's private notebooks.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, collections, 20th-century, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: experimental-writing, writer-protagonist
322 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform