Writing Resources For those of you who could use an excellent source of writing advice, guides to internet magazines, and writers' websites, check out Dee Rimbaud's site by clicking here. Book of the Year At the American Booksellers Association convention in Chicago in 2001,An American Outrage was named Editor's Choice 2000 Book of the Year in Fiction by ForeWord Magazine (the leading source of critiques and reviews for independent booksellers).  Nude In Tub was published in 1999 and was a Book-of-the-Month Club (QPB) selection. Many of the stories were originally published in such magazines as The Gettysburg Review,The Missouri Review, New York Stories,Other Voices, Flaunt, and Prairie Schooner.  First thoughts toward an autobiography Really RecentA good taste of where I'm at right now can be found in the story, Husbands recently published in Literal Latte (a peppy little tabloid in New York City). One of my scariest stories, originally published in Other Voices, was recently reprinted in Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters, edited by Michelle Slung (HarperCollins Perennial). It has the rather homey title of "The General Store," but if you've ever been in the mood for revenge, Johnny and Janice will tell you what it's all about. Two new novels and two story collections are in the works. |
Writings The typewriter has since been replaced by a computer. The pencil, however, is non-replaceable. Reflections In A Keyhole Eye
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998 During a brief time spent in Mankato, Minnesota for a job that didn't work out, I ran across the following headline in the Minneapolis, Star-Tribune: "Heston's Taped Reading Of Nietzsche Helps UW Team Find Vascular Problem In Dental Assistant's Defective Brain." It was a monster headline that I knew I had to save, some unknown use for it, I was sure, just waiting down the road. When I was asked by Algonquin to do a piece for their series on writers' creative roots, that tag just popped out as theme, focus, centerpiece. It was all about disparities, things linked together that a more normal frame of mind rarely links. That, in turn, was how I began to see my writing - the horse in the bathtub; the oration in the confessional booth; or the voice of God coming to a carpenter through the head of a nail. Mostly, the artist tries for coherence, a certain kind of order - not so much in the world as in the work. We often repeat the mantra that we live in crazy times, and certainly any given day's events can bear that out. The work of art, however, is where the mind or heart pauses for a moment to touch sanity. Sometimes those pauses are very brief. An American Outrage
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000 "The appeal of Wuori's offbeat novel is that it shortchanges neither the horror these people visit on one another nor the lessons they learn in order to cope with it." The New York Times Book Review "Told in prose rich with earthy wisdom, Wuori's book succeeds as a eulogy to a damanged soul, a love story stripped of the trappings of romance and a cautionary tale about the witch-hunt mentality." The Boston Herald "Watch your back in Quillifarkeag ... the fictional setting for G. K. Wuori's first novel.... The wacky locals love to live in rumors, the woods are wild enough to hide almost anything, and stories abound about the nearby Russians who turn Americans into dog food." The Chicago Tribune Nude In Tub
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999 "This is fine, funny, often disturbing, original. It's ribald, and bizarre. It reminds me of early John Irving: somewhat unbelievable and even cruel in parts, but in the end the reader has a damn good time with it." Stephen Dixon "An assured voice that's as adept at humor as it is at less savory fare .... has placed a memorable new town on the literary map." The New York Times Book Review "The inhabitants of G. K. Wuori's Quillifarkeag, Maine, live at the same ironic moral latitude as those in Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo, N.D....these stories seek out the telltale heart of small-town America, rip it out and shove it in our faces ...." Chicago Tribune  A page from the original manuscript of "Mothers," from Nude In Tub. The story was written in several motels in Nova Scotia over the course of a week. |
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