#d. foy

[therumpus]

Literary fiction underserves, and often neglects, the working class and the impoverished. Rising alongside the European petit bourgeois, this subset of fiction—character-driven, sometimes devoid of plot—largely served the people consuming it, what we’d call the middle-class or upper-middle-class in the United States. When poverty reveals itself in literary fiction, it’s often meant as a warning, a cautionary tale, a worst-case-scenario for people living in comfort.

Daulton Dickey reviews Patricide by D. Foy

[michaeltfournier]

Two new pieces today

A rare twofer day:

I talk about the Stooges on the RS 500, and D. Foy's new one on Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

[therumpus]

So when I say that art is an inside job, I mean that it starts with us, and with our minds. Since what we perceive and how we perceive it dictates what we write and how, perception is the requisite state for writing. To better understand myself through better understanding my thoughts, and hence to trusting myself through trusting my thoughts, I needed to train myself in the things of perception—principally attention, intuition, and digression, all of which, when acting together, amount to an artist’s style. Real style—or what at any rate we call “style”—is nothing more or less than the form the artist’s mind assumes in the moment of her art’s creation. The form of the artist’s art, which is inseparable from her art, expresses the artist’s mind in all her splendid particularity at the instant she creates. It’s the only expression her art can assume.

THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW with D. Foy.

[michaeltfournier]

Two new reviews

I reviewed D. Foy's "Patricide" for Chicago Review of Books.

Also, here's a review of Louie Cronin's "Everyone Loves You Back" for Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

[litreactor]

An amalgam of principals, techniques, strategies, and perspectives deployed singly and in unison to achieve a vision that couldn’t otherwise be achieved. Therein lies the heart of gutter opera.

[35over35]

D. Foy

Made to Break, D. Foy, Two Dollar Radio

Two days before New Years, a pack of five friends—three men and two women—head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. They’ve been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times.  After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin, there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and themselves.  With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory, D. Foy is an incendiary new voice and Made to Break, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolaño.

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[coniumreview]

Book Review: "Made to Break," by D. Foy

Book Review: "Made to Break," by D. Foy on Heavy Feather Review's website

Our Managing Editor, James R. Gapinski, has a new book review of D. Foy’s Made to Break (Two Dollar Radio, 2014) at Heavy Feather Review.  Check it out here.

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