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William K Gillespie
Writer

O William Gillespie dança um forró com Spineless Books que vai acabar com o imperalismo das empresas editoriais em Nova Iorque.

Continuously working against the grain of American letters — ignoring New York city, writing collaboratively, employing invisible constraints, writing across media, publishing under multiple heteronyms, publishing himself, publishing his weird friends, trying everything possible, always creating new forms, William Gillespie doggedly aspires to be an unsung hero of literature. William has published 14 5/6 books under 5 different names. He runs the publishing house Spineless Books and the online bookstore Spybeam Books.

"...a guy who is living (what remains) of an avant-garde life. Keep it up—we need guys like you and Harry Smith to keep our lives sane (or what passes for sanity in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism)."
—Larry McCaffery

"I've had very, very few superstars. William is a superstar."
—David Foster Wallace

"Gillespie works in a contemporary tradition whose foremost practitioners are members of the Oulipo, the Paris-based group of writers and mathematicians founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Gillespie's poetry can seem as feverishly wrought as some works of Ian Monk and at other times as stylishly refined as some works of Harry Mathews."
—Doug Nufer, American Book Review

"...a writer who has clearly learned his chops well."
—Eckhard Gerdes, Context

"...his vastly superior linguistic skills, mathematical mind, intelligence and curiosity combine with his energy...to produce writing of a unique richness and playfulness."
—Lucia Cordell Getsi

"[Gillespie's] language here is far from restrained—it is disciplined, wily, animated, resourceful, in turn nonsensical and musical, but supremely vital, dazzling to confront ('read' is not quite the verb), sculpted lines smeary with fingerprints, stunned by the audacity of their own construction."
—Joseph Dewey, Review of Contemporary Fiction

"His imagination is sharp, raucous, random, and contrarian."
—Lance Olsen, American Book Review

"William Gillespie...is one of the wittiest and most original writers in contemporary American literature."
—Robert Coover

"I think the world is finally ready for William Gillespie."
—Philip Graham

COLLABORATIONS

2002: A Palindrome Story in 2002 Words, by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie

Morpheus Bibionaut, by Travis Alber, William Gillespie, Aaron Miller, and David Schmudde

Word Museum, by David Dao, William Gillespie, and Jason Rodriguez

The Ed Report: serial fiction for the web, by William Gillespie, Nick Montfort, and Dylan Meissner

The Unknown: The Hypertext, by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, Dirk Stratton, and Frank

MUSIC

gleed: punk by Ed O'Connor-Giles and William Gillespie

Soda Gun: pop by William Gillespie and Ryan Groff

The Ventriloquist's Administration: rap by Willy G and Paul Kotheimer

PERFORMANCES

Callings

Stallings

Works in Progress 3

Works in Progress 2

Works in Progress 1

YouTube

RADIO SHOWS

Eclectic Seizure and Rock Geek F.M.

WRITING

BOOKS

Keyhole Factory

Spybeam Bookshop

ELECTRONIC LITERATURE

Car Alarms of Providence

Letter to Linus

Newspoetry

Table of Forms

wordwork.org

LITERARY CRITICISM

Sure Do Wish You'd Get You One Of These Here Taters: An Essay On Cormac McCarthy's Suttree

NOTEBOOKS

El Libro de Mexico

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