November 29, 2004
(Past) Progressive writing
I picked up a copy of J P Dunleavy's Fairy Tale of New York, a rollicking book written mostly with participles. I really liked his Wrong Information Is Being Given Out At Princeton, with its antihero Stephen O'Kelly'O, and the succinct, vindictive Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms.
The narrative portions of the book remind me of William S. Burroughs in their lucidity, and in the way both authors eschew complete sentences.
