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INTRO: BELOW THE WRACK

Like Philip K,. Dick, I imagined, early on in my career, such as it was then, that I might really be a writer of mainstream, contemporary fiction, not genre work. I’m not sure what inspired this delusion, since I enjoyed fantastika above all else (while still admiring much naturalistic prose, such as Faulkner, Nabokov, et al). And so here and there I essayed a mimetic tale and tried to place it at the unfamiliar venues who knew me not. Needless to say, I did not have much luck. Decades later, writing such novels as Joe’s Liver and Roadside Bodhisattva, I got the bug pretty much out of my system. Though there is still this one tale remaining that I want to tell, about an itinerant postcard salesman in the 1930s….