Over at Bookspot Cenral, Jay Tomio has reposted an essayistic thing, “Notes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction”, which I wrote a very. long. time. ago. In my mid-twenties. Reading over it again is like reading the work of a familiar stranger. It also makes me feel just a little bit old. 🙂
Here’s Jay’s intro to the piece:
More bringing back vintage pieces from names you know now! I dug up some files from the Ratbastards! Today, Chris Barzak is one of the great young writers we have, with novels like One for Sorrow and The Love We Share Without Knowing (one of my best of 2008). The former won the Crawford award for Best Debut Novel.
Back then, however, we had a young man writing essays with titles like Notes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction. With his permission, it is this piece that BookSpot Central now represents. We’d like to thank Mr. Barzak for allowing us to do so . . .
You can read the whole thing by clicking here.
I should probably also mention that One for Sorrow has made the preliminary 2008 Nebula Awards ballot. It’s a list with some amazing writers on it. I’m honored to be included in their company.
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