"Pablo D'Stair is defining the new writer. There is NO ONE else. As reckless as Kerouac's 120-foot trace paper, D'Stair's independence from all of us needs to be studied and celebrated." (TONY BURGESS author of People Live Still In Cashtown Corners)
Village Idiot Press presents the definitive editions of the collected novels, novella, and short stories of author Pablo D'Stair. The 42 volumes are presented in chronological order of composition, 2000-2020.
From KILL CHRISTIAN:
They would be very sincere and polite, having quite a nice time conversing with an old man on an airplane. They would ask him why he was traveling and he would not answer them 'To kill a man'. No. He would amuse them with stories of all the places he had traveled, all of the boats and trains and long hikes he had taken in his lifetime. He would tell them of great love affairs under the open sky, of waking in the bed of another man, beside this man's wife, her face looking at him with regret, she knowing how he knew already he would have to leave. He would ask them their names and their replies would be of no consequence. They would ask him his and he would say 'Christian'.
"D'Stair doesn't just write like a house afire, he writes like the whole city's burning, and these words he's putting on the page are the thing that can save us all." (STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES author of The Only Good Indian)
Author Biography:
PABLO D'STAIR was born in 1981. At the age of 19 he composed his first novel (October People) for the 3 Day Novel Writing Contest sponsored by Anvil Press. The novel did not win the competition but was published in the subsequent year - along with his second novel (Confidant) - by the infamous and now defunct vanity book-mill Publish America. In the mid-2000's, D'Stair co-founded the art-house press Brown Paper Publishing with his colleague, the novelist, musician, and painter Goodloe Byron. Through this press and its literary journal Predicate, he released the work of more than fifty of his peers along with editions of two dozen of his own books (including Regard, dustjacket flowers, Candour, a man who killed the alphabet, Carthago Delenda Est, and the novella comprising they say the owl was a baker's daughter: four existential noirs). Eventually shuttering BPP, D'Stair founded (KUOBA) press, continuing to publish work by his contemporaries. During this era, his own literary output remained prolific but largely unreleased, though several works were made available as limited-edition print projects and in various electronic mediums (including the purse snatcher letters, the cigarette miscellany, and the five novella comprising Trevor English). D'Stair spent several years as a cinema critic - primarily for the UK site Battle Royale with Cheese - and as an essayist/interviewer for the national newspaper of Sri Lanka's Sunday Observer (through which periodical several of his novella and a story collection were serialized). Also during this period, D'Stair began working as an underground filmmaker in the capacities of writer, director, cinematographer, editor, and performer - the cinematography of his first feature (A Public Ransom) earned an award in international competition at the XIX Internacionlni TV Festival (Bar, Montenegro 2014). D'Stair has also written several volumes of poetry, more than four dozen pieces of theatre, written and directed music videos, written and illustrated graphic novels and comic-book series, and writ-ten/produced/performed audio essays. His work across all mediums has often been released pseudonymously. Presently, he lives and writes in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
