Shrapnel

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 0.9); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>For decades Lance Olsen has been a wellspring of literary innovation sophistication and elan. With more than thirty books to his name he consistently pushes the limits of narrative and aspires for the New. </span><em style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Shrapnel</em><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 0.9)> brings together some of Olsen's most compelling nonfiction from the twenty-first century. In this collection of essays and interviews he discusses topics ranging from the philosophy of contemporary writing and the corporatization of the literary scene to entropology creative disjunction autrebiography media culture and identity politics with insights into the lives and writings of fellow stylists like Jorge Luis Borges Franz Kafka Donald Barthelme Steve Tomasula Kathy Acker and many others. All this is supplemented by reflections on his own craft and worldly experiences. Intuitive edifying and earnest </span><em style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Shrapnel</em><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 0.9)> reveals Olsen's breadth of knowledge while (re)establishing him as one of the few living authors invested in preserving the increasingly lost art of literature.</span></p>