D. W. White
“I want to write something new–something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.”
-f. scott fitzgerald
Bienvenue
I am about to write soemthing good: something rich, & deep, & fluent & hard as nails, while bright as diamonds.
–Virignia woolf
Words
Fiction
La Neige (excerpt of The Nunnery)
Tritogeneia (excerpt of The Seachamber)
To The Dressing Room (excerpt of The Seachamber)
Bibamus, Moriendum Est (excerpt of The Winemakers)
Madeleine, Entre-Deux-Mondes (excerpt of The Winemakers) *Pushcart Prize Nominee
Non-Fiction
Critical Essay on Methods of Rendering Consciousness in Ulysses
Critical Essay on Point of View in Works of Rachel Cusk
Critical Essay on the Legacy of Modernism in Contemporary Literature
Critical Essay on Emily Hall’s The Longcut and First-Person Consciousness
Critical Essay on Novels of Renata Adler
Critical Essay on Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day *Pushcart Prize Nominee
Conversation with novelist Lucy Corin
Book Reviews:
- Rachel Cusk’s Second Place
- Maggie Shipstead’s Great Circle
- Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth
- Kelly McClorey’s Nobody, Somebody, Anybody
- Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon
- Louise Nealon’s Snowflake
- Claire Chambers’ Small Pleasures
- Lucy Corin’s The Swank Hotel
- Claire Vaye Watkins’ I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
- Ayşegül Savaş’ White on White
- Francisco Pacifico’s The Women I Love
- Nataliya Deleva’s Four Minutes
- Cara Blue Adams’ You Never Get It Back
- Will Aitkin’s The Swells
- Gunnhild Øyehaung’s Present Tense Machine
- Renée Branum’s Defenestrate
- Ella Baxter’s New Animal
- Maayan Eitan’s Love
- Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour
- Lee Cole’s Groundskeeping
- Dawn Winter’s Sedating Elaine
- Siobhan Phillips’ Benefit
- Christopher Linforth’s The Distortions
- Camille Laurens’ Girl
- Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ The Visitors
- Mark Haber’s Saint Sebastian’s Abyss
- Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona
- Steve Stern’s The Village Idiot
- Lucy Ives’ Life Is Everywhere
- Kevin Maloney’s The Red-Headed Pilgrim
- Geoffrey D. Morrison’s Falling Hour
- Chelsea Martin’s Tell Me I’m An Artist
- Jáchym Topol’s A Sensitive Person
- Review of Marisa Matarazzo’s “The Terrarium”, as featured in Summer 2021 Ploughshares
Verse
“Windows Beneath the Street“, Trouvaille Review
“Pre-Dawn“, Zero Readers
D. W. White writes consciousness-forward fiction and criticism. He is a graduate of the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Otis College in Los Angeles and Stony Brook University’s BookEnds Fellowship.
He is the Founding Editor of L’Esprit Literary Review, and serves as Fiction Editor and Excerpts Editor for West Trade Review, where he also contributes critical essays and book reviews. His writing further appears in 3:AM, The Florida Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Necessary Fiction, and Chicago Review of Books, among several other publications.
A Chicago ex-pat, he now lives in Long Beach, California, where he teaches writing at Otis College and frequents the beach to hide from writer’s block. He is on Twitter @dwhitethewriter.
Perhaps, he said, we are all like animals in a zoo, and once we see that one of us has gotten out of the enclosure, we shout at him to run like mad, even though it will only result in him becoming lost.
—Rachel Cusk, Outline
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