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"In clear, resonant prose, laced with bittersweet humor, Di Blasi imparts her understanding of love's multiple ironies." -The New York Times Book Review
"Di Blasi has a mind unlike anyone else writing fiction today, and this [The Jiri Chronicles] is her finest work yet." –Kevin Prufer, editor, Pleiades
"Beware, reader, you're in for a sumptuous, hypertextual, hypercharged ride. Hyperion himself would smile." –David Hamilton, Editor, The Iowa Review
"Both Di Blasi's style and her objective distance and comprehension of her chosen subject mark her as a very psychologically driven, very talented writer." –Publishers Weekly
“With The Jirí Chronicles one gets the sense that Di Blasi saw the divide between what she wanted to do and what she’d achieved and said something like the hell with it, taking a torch to old ways of writing stories, and the result is by far the most interesting thing she’s done…. It’s a huge step for Di Blasi, and a welcome one.” –Tim Feeney, Review of Contemporary Fiction
FORTHCOMING 2010:
"The Republic for Which It Stands," mixed media story, in Out of Nothing (Janice Lee and Joe Milazzo, eds).
"Exerpts from The Jiri Chronicles," in Conceptual Writing, (Laynie Brown and Vanessa Place, eds.)
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SEARCH DATA: Debra Di Blasi was born Debra Pickens in Kirksville, (Adair County) Missouri. She grew up Debbie Pickens in Unionville (Putnam County) Missouri.
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Forthcoming 2010
Interviewed by David Hoenigman for Word Riot.Debra's mixed media story, Quell the Mayhem Night, won the Diagram's innovative fiction award and will be published with the seven other finalists in a forthcoming issue. Kelly Link, author of Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners, was this year's judge. The annual prize awards $1000 to the winner, and Diagram apparel to finalists. Next year's judge is Brian Evenson.
Debra's mixed media fiction, "Sprung Up in the Years Since," appears in the anthology, Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century.
New mixed media fiction, "It's Okay To Stare," appears in the resurrected Exquisite Corpse.
Excerpt from Drought appears in a new anthology of poetry about rape: The Why and Later, edited by Carly Sachs (Deep Cleveland Press).
Debra interviewed by Dr. Kent Gustavson on Sound Authors.
Debra Di Blasi received an Inspiration Grant from The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City. The $900 grant will help pay for expenses to attend the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing & Art.
An essay about fairy tales by the real Jirí Cêch appears in Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales.LISTEN to Laura Spencer of NPR discussing the exhibition "Beasts," with comments by artists, including Debra Di Blasi.
Interview with editor Robert Stewart discusses the willingness of New Letters to publish innovative writing in the journal.October 2, 2006 review of Drought & Say What You Like now at Ron Silliman's Blog.Common misspellings & mispronunciations of my name:
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6. Nonfiction online
Gass Pain
A humorous and informative analysis of William H. Gass's novel, "The Tunnel".
Visual Art
Paintings & Drawings
Paintings and drawings from the series, "muons, gluons, pions & strings: Homage to edward Witten."
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