I write short fiction, but have dabbled in creative non-fiction and personal essays. I’m currently writing a series of short stories that will comprise a novel or novella. My work is largely dependent upon place--mainly South East Asia where I live and travel--and character. I’m interested in portraying and exploring the relationships between characters and the place in which they live. My work is at times challenging, largely because I don’t romanticize anything, something that many readers expect when reading about foreign places and people. Instead, I tend towards realism and brutalism. My stories aren’t for everyone, and I’m the first one to admit it. Having said that, I do look for moments of beauty and hope that you can see them in my work.
Writers I find myself enjoying and admiring include some of the big names like Hemingway, Joyce, Greene, Bukowski, Carver, Faulkner, McCullers, Fitzgerald, and O’Connor. But the authors really love are often lesser known, writers like Kenji Nagakami, Nathaniel West, A.M. Homes, Pankaj Mishra, Richard Yates, j.g. Ballard, Michel Houellebecq, Thom Jones, William Gay and Kenzo Kitakata. I also enjoy reading theoretical, sociological and critical work like Lacan, Focault, Satre, Freud, and Zizek. I find that it helps shed some light on new story forms, if that makes any sense.
formosakrush's Genres: literary fiction
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