WITHOUT WAX

Without Wax is a documentary novel available from Casperian Books.

Interweaving traditional narrative with faux interviews, court depositions, consumer profiles, and a film script, Without Wax is framed as an oral biography that provides an intriguing glimpse into the adult entertainment industry.

Reviews: New Pages | Blog Critics | Matt Bell's LitBlog | Rain Taxi | Largehearted Boy

"Without Wax is full of the electric, the taboo, the sad bizarre. 

There's no doubt Walsh knows what he's doing, and that he's

willing to go wherever necessary to find and render something

new."

-Blake Butler, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Issue #49, Spring 2008

 

"Without Wax is structured in such a way that is entertaining and

compulsively readable, getting as close to watching its filmic

incarnation as the written word will allow."

-Josh Maday, NewPages (March 2008)

 

"This is a book that is infinitely quotable, full of lines that are

sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and often just drop

dead sexy, all coming together to create a wide variety of surprising

responses, an effect that Walsh pulls off again and again."

-Matt Bell, Fiction and Other Writing Blog, March 18, 2008 

 

"This is a well-written and thoughtful book about a subject that

most people have a knee jerk reaction to. If you're willing to

be as honest with yourself as the book is, you might just find

yourself thinking about the adult film industry in a different light."

-Richard Marcus, Blogcritics.org, February 21, 2008

William Walsh's short stories and derived texts have appeared in New York Tyrant, Juked, Lit, Press, Exquisite Corpse, Word Riot, Rosebud, Crescent Review, Quarterly West, Pequin, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency,  Caketrain, Elimae, Opium, 3711 Atlantic, Blotter, Segue, Fringe, and 5_Trope, Muse Apprentice Guild, Yankee Pot Roast, Onionhead, Old Crow, The Q Review, Sulphur River Literary Quarterly, Sweet Fancy Moses, and other journals. An illustrated chapbook called "The Snowman on the Moon" is forthcoming from Uptown Books.

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