Clifford Garstang is a fiction writer and former international lawyer. His first novel, THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY, was published in May 2019. His novel in stories, WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, won the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. He is also the author of two story collections, IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY and HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and the editor of three anthologies, EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET, Volumes I, II, and III. His new novel, OLIVER’S TRAVELS, will be published in May 2021.
>I’m (as usual) as out of it as a person can possibly be, but if Frey is the Million Pieces guy, I admire his ability to work the system and don’t give a rat’s ass what’s true and not true. Modern day memoir is no more credible than an eyewitneess, and truth is a Photoshop plug-in.
>Exactly.