The Big Lie

Prose. A boy finds an artist's manifesto on the floor, a gay man reflects on his regrets, a woman suddenly sees a man's face through her car window. Subtly referencing some of the great iconoclasts of literature and philosophy (Kafka, Wilde, Nietzsche), the vignettes in THE BIG LIE unveil a defiant sense of contemporary artistic possibility, rising at times into a full-scale attack on American style consumerism, unmediated authorship, and the bloated privileges of literary genius. Quick shifts between styles, personas, and subject matter keep the reader critical and wary. Wallace's SONNETS OF A PENNY-A-LINER, NOTHING HAPPENED AND BESIDES I WASN'T THERE, and COMPLICATIONS FROM STANDING IN A CIRCLE are also available from SPD.Wallace, Mark is the author of 'The Big Lie' with ISBN 9781880713228 and ISBN 1880713225.