· David Ohle's first novel, MOTORMAN (Calamari Press), was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in under the now-legendary editorial aegis of Gordon Lish. Most recently, he is the author of THE BLAST (Calamari Press, ). His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. A native of New Orleans, Ohle now lives in Lawrence, Kansas, and teaches . MOTORMAN David Ohle Introduction For a long time I was scared to read Motorman. It had come recommended to me in such hushed tones that it sounded disruptively incendiary and. David Ohle's first novel, MOTORMAN (Calamari Press), was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in under the now-legendary editorial aegis of Gordon Lish. His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. A native of New Orleans, Ohle now lives in Lawrence, Kansas, and teaches at the University of Kansas/5(18).
Motorman, David Ohle () Matt Tracy's cover for the edition. There is no cover or interior blurb for the reprint edition. From the back cover of the 1st edition: "MOTORMAN is Moldenke, a man living in the City of one possible future—a man of little strength, few feelings, four implanted sheep's hearts ticking away. David Ohle, author of the epic science fiction dystopia Motorman, will release a posthumous memoir of William S. Burroughs, Jr. through Soft Skull Press in September. Like his original cult-classic, published by Knopf in and reprinted by 3rd Bed in , and its eagerly anticipated follow-up, The Age of Sinatra (Soft Skull, ), Billy. Somewhere between Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and Cormac McCarthy's darker roads is situated the powerfully bizarre and intriguing Motorman, written by David Ohle. It's not a new work, but it has generated a consistent buzz in terms of the ever popular dystopia-themed literature.
David Ohle is an American writer, novelist, and a lecturer at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. After receiving his M.A. from KU, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin from to In he began teaching fiction writing and screenwriting as a part-time lecturer at the University of Kansas. MOTORMAN David Ohle Introduction For a long time I was scared to read Motorman. It had come recommended to me in such hushed tones that it sounded disruptively incendiary and. Motorman by David Ohle. Okay, let me just say I am no stranger to strange literature. I’ve read the intensely gross Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (lots and lots of rape and drugs and necks-snapping), the existential masterpiece Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the disturbing and meandering WWII novel The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński (rape and bestiality), the ballistic-cannibalistic-sadistic-and-linguistic dark-comedic masterwork American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (rape and.
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