Questionstruck: A Collection of Question-Based Texts Derived from the Books of Calvin Trillin

Questionstruck traces the line of questioning throughout Calvin Trillin's first twenty-five books, compiling all of Trillin's interrogatives--the rhetorical, the political, and the victual--into one dizzying collection. Echoing Trillin's food and travel books, his reports in The New Yorker, and his political verse in The Nation, Questionstruck is an inventive and experimental text that begs to be defined. "Master re-contextualizer William Walsh has pulled off an unlikely feat: he didn't write a word of this book, and yet its twisted pleasures couldn't possibly belong to anyone else. He has managed to transform the collected works of Calvin Trillin into some kind of whacked-out koan, a strangely compelling harangue that will leave you dumbstruck." --J. Robert Lennon, author of Mailman, and The Funnies

William Walsh is the author of Without Wax: A Documentary Novel. His fiction and derived texts have appeared in New York Tyrant, Caketrain, Juked, Rosebud, Quarterly West, Lit, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and other journals.