I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories

A bewitching collection of short fiction--haunting and hypnotic meditations on art movies literature and life. In Dream of a Clean Slate Jackson Pollock the man struggles with the separation he feels from Jackson Pollock the artist; The Judgement of Psycho probes the sexual dynamic of Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Psycho and then delves into the relationship between Hector and Paris in the Iliad; and Orson Welles presides over Crimes at Midnight a tense evocation of desire and its consequences. A series of myths for modern times this is an astonishing debut.