The joy in reaching to the truth in writing, is having the faith to trust that it can be found, provided one looks to pulse of blood running through the veins of thought, and not to the meaning of it.​​
More Art = A Greater Tolerance
​Montreal Publishing Company has brought out a 2nd edition of my novel THE FIDDLER IN THE NIGHT. If you haven't read it, now is the time to discover why The US Review of Books called it "a work of art in word form."
I hope enjoy it, and consider leaving a review.
#tragic #lovestory
If you see this, while it's up - and who knows how long that will be, and you'd like to read The Fiddler in the Night, just hit me up, and I'll send you an ebook.
"If you mashed up parts of McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and Camus’ The Stranger, added side characters too peculiar to make any draft of Through the Looking Glass, minced up a whole lot of southern gothic vibes, topped it off with a handful of pulverized mushrooms, and then drank the concoction, that might put you somewhere in the vicinity of New Arcadia. Which is where this story begins."
- Jason Arias
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"At times THE FIDDLER IN THE NIGHT is a thriller reminiscent of the dark, intense work of Cormac McCarthy. At times it’s a coming-of-age tale, or a precise portrait of middle America. It manages to be all these things, while also telling an absorbing story. This is a cat-and-mouse tale set in grand, lonely landscapes and peopled with characters that feel achingly real."
- Neon Books, UK
Author of the critically acclaimed collection of short stories, Torrents of Our Time, and the novels, The Fiddler in the Night, and LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America, Christian, with his latest book, What I Know About the Human Race, looks at love, life, hope, and art through various forms of writing: fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, and a one act play.
"Words used to be art. In their creation. In the act. And thus the words were art in their very being. Forget the reader. Just don't forget the impetus. Christian Fennell never did. One of the rare few."
- The Prague Revue
A violent fucking poet."-Josip Novakovich
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writing en·light·en·ment
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“And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns ... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale ... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.”​ — Bob Dylan
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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.” – Albert Camus. And from this we begin to write.
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“Writing is always rooted in something beyond language, but develops like a seed, not like a line, it manifests an essence and holds the threat of a secret, it is an anti-communication, it is intimidating.” - Roland Barthes
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"The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about." - Bob Dylan
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“Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?” - James Joyce
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"If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success." - Malcolm X
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“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.” - Leo Tolstoy
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"When ‘great literature’ is replaced by ‘excellent fiction’, that’s the real betrayal of higher education." - Elif Batuman
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“Life is too short to read a bad book.” - James Joyce
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.” - William Faulkner
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“The days are stacked against what we think we are." Jim Harrison. And so, the less we think we know, the better situated we for writing fiction.
"The word is a flame burning in a dark glass." Sheila Watson
"Write dangerously. - James Joyce
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"Imagination is everything.' - Albert Einstein
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"Be writing." - William Faulkner
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” - Anais Nin
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"The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art, and cinema." - Werner Herzog
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"Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too." - Jim Harrison ​
