{"id":823,"date":"2013-08-25T07:58:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2013-08-25T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:58:51","slug":"experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The fall 2013 issue of Glimmer Train<\/i> includes an interview with short story writer and novelist Peter LaSalle<\/a>, based at the U of Texas, Austin.\u00a0\u00a0 LaSalle talks about his new book, Mariposa\u2019s Song<\/a>\u2014the story of a 20-year-old Honduran immigrant girl working in a rough Austin nightclub. The story itself unwinds like a song, one very long song, in one very very long sentence.<\/p>\n

Experimental fiction has always had its devotees and its detractors. One reader\u2019s bold innovation is another’s annoying gimmick. The ultimate test, of course, is, does it work? Ten, twenty years on, when the glare of newness no longer blinds us, do people still read it? You\u2019ll think of examples of successful experiments immediately (and will have forgotten the others, perhaps):<\/p>\n