James Chapman (author)
James Chapman (born 1955) is an American novelist and publisher. He was raised in Bakersfield, California, has lived in New York City since 1978, and is the author of eight novels to date.
His work combines experimental technique with a direct emotionality, often dealing with the anguish inherent in human communication.
Excerpted in many print and online magazines, and in chapbook form, his work has won a Notable Stories in StorySouth's Million Writers Award, and been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize.
Novels
- Our Plague (A Film from New York) [1993]
- The Walls Collide as You Expand, Dwarf Maple [1993]
- Glass (Pray the Electrons Back to Sand) [1994]
- In Candyland It's Cool to Feed on Your Friends [1998]
- Daughter! I Forbid Your Recurring Dream! [2000]
- Stet [2006]
- How is This Going to Continue? [2007]
- Degenerescence [2009]
In anthologies
- Avant Garde for the New Millennium, edited by Forrest Armstrong (Raw Dog Screaming Press).
- Hatter Bones, edited by Paul Jessup (Evil Nerd Empire).
Chapbook
- Don’t Give Up and Die, Don’t Push Me Into the Blackness, No, Life Is Impossible, We Agree, Stay With Me in Hiding, Exile Together Is Better than Death, They Won’t Find Us, They Won’t Mock at You Again, They Won’t Kick Me Again, We’ll Float Above Them, We’ll Feed Each Other with Fruits They Don’t Know How to Find, We Won’t Speak Their Language Anymore, Our Lungs Will Fill with Light (Mud Luscious Press)
As publisher
Chapman also operates Fugue State Press, a publisher of "advanced and experimental fiction" which has published a peculiar assortment of work by André Malraux, W. B. Keckler, Randie Lipkin, Prakash Kona, Noah Cicero, Eckhard Gerdes, Tim Miller, Joshua Cohen, and others. Chapman has referred to the press as "an orphanage for the unpublishable", indicating that the work is not commercially viable in the current publishing marketplace.