Edward Falco
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Edward Falcois an American author, playwright, electronic literature writer, and new media editor.
Works and publications[edit]
Hypertexts and electronic literature[edit]
An early innovator in the field of digital writing,[1]Falco's literary and experimental hypertexts are taught in universities internationally. His online work includesSelf-Portrait as Child w/Father(Iowa Review Web),Circa 1967–1968(Eastgate Reading Room), and"Charmin' Cleary"(Eastgate Reading Room). Falco's work also appears in the online journalBlackbird.Falco published two works with Eastgate,a hypertext poetry collection,Sea Island(1995) and hypertext novel,A Dream with Demons(1997),Astrid Ensslindescribes Falco's short essay, "Arriving at the Hypertext Poem" in theEastgateQuarterly as an "essay to explore the nonlinear affordances of he medium."[2]
He has edited and overseen The New River, an online publication of electronic literature (new media writing).
Novels and short stories[edit]
His latest book is the poetry Collection,X in the Tickseed(LSU, 2024). His previous books include the novel,Transcendent Gardening(C&R Press, 2022), the poetry collectionWolf Moon Blood Moon(LSU, 2017), and the crime novelsToughs(Unbridled Books, 2014) andThe Family Corleone(Grand Central, 2012).Toughsfollows the lives of fictional characters and their relationship to the notorious criminalVince "Mad Dog" Coll,as well asLucky Luciano,Owney Madden, Dutch Shultz, and other gangland figures.The Family Corleone(2012), based on a screenplay byMario Puzo,spent several weeks onThe New York TimesBest Seller and Extended Best Seller lists, and has been published around the world in twenty-one foreign editions. Other novels includeSaint John of the Five Boroughs(2009) andWolf Point(2006). His short story collectionSabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Storieswas released in 2005. Falco'sIn the Park of Culture,a collection of short fictions, was released the same year.[3]
In addition to the works mentioned above, Falco's earlier books include the novelWinter in Florida(1990) and a chapbook of prose poems,Concert in the Park of Culture(1985), as well as two collections of short stories:Acid(1996) andPlato at Scratch Daniel's & Other Stories(1990).
His stories have been published widely in journals, includingThe Atlantic Monthly,Playboy,andTriQuarterly,and collected in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and several anthologies, including,Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium.
Plays[edit]
As aplaywright,Falco is the author ofHome Delivery,which won the Hampden-Sydney Playwriting Award and was subsequently staged by theHampden-SydneyTheater Department. Earlier versions of the play were given staged readings in Mill Mountain Theater's Centerpiece and Theater B reading series. Two plays,Sabbath Night in the Church of the PiranhaandRadon,premiered in university productions at Virginia Tech. Both were directed by David Johnson. In the summer of 2001, Falco worked with artists and actors from theUnited States,England,Greece,Bosnia,andGermanyin an international theatre project meant to explore the healing power of drama. Scenes fromThe Cretans,a play developed during the project, were presented for a small audience in an amphitheatre on the Aegean in the village of Kolympari,Crete.His most recent plays areThe MiscreantandPossum Dreams;the latter received its world premiere atAkron, Ohio'sNone Too Fragile Theatre's June 13–28, 2014[4]
Prizes and awards[edit]
Acidwon the 1995Richard Sullivan Prizefrom the University of Notre Dame and was a finalist for The Patterson Prize. He has won a number of other prizes and awards for his fiction, including the Robert Penn Warren Prize from theSouthern Review,the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Short Fiction fromThe Virginia Quarterly Review,The Mishima Prize for Innovative Fiction fromThe Saint Andrews Review,a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, two Individual Artist's Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and The Governor's Award for the Screenplay from The Virginia Festival of American Film.
Miscellaneous[edit]
Falco lives inBlacksburg, Virginia,where he teaches writing and literature inVirginia Tech's MFA program and editsThe New River,an online journal of digital writing. He is the uncle ofEdie Falco,an American actress known for her role ofCarmela Sopranoon theHBOdrama seriesThe Sopranos.
Bibliography[edit]
- Concert in the Park of Culture(1985)
- Winter in Florida(1990)
- Plato at Scratch Daniel's & Other Stories(1990)
- Sea Island(1995)
- Acid(1996)
- A Dream with Demons(1997)
- Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories(2005)
- In the Park of Culture(2005)
- Wolf Point(2006)
- Saint John of the Five Boroughs(2009)
- Burning Man(2011)
- The Family Corleone(2012)
- Toughs(2014)
- Wolf Moon Blood Moon(2017)
- Transcendent Gardening(2022)
References[edit]
- ^"Edward Falco bio note".Retrieved2009-11-03.
- ^Ensslin, Astrid (2022).Pre-web digital publishing and the lore of electronic literature.Cambridge elements publishing and book culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 93–98.ISBN978-1-108-82888-8.
- ^"Notre Dame Press: Falco, Edward: In the Park of Culture".Archived fromthe originalon 2007-06-29.Retrieved2008-02-18.
- ^Clawson, Kerry (June 11, 2014)."None Too Fragile presents world premiere play".Akron Beacon Journal.RetrievedJune 15,2014.
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