Paul Park
Paul Park
Paul Claiborne Parkis an American science fiction author and fantasy author. He teaches a course in reading and writing science fiction at Williams College. He has also taught at the Clarion West writing workshop and the Clarion workshop and was an instructor at Clarion West in 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 October 1954
CountryUnited States of America
genre modernist tied
Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.
projection
Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'
best experience fiction good people reading sort suddenly
I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely.