Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Andy Devine's WORDS includes two alphabetical lists (words that should and should not be used), a grammar on fiction writing, nine alphabetical stories, and a 90K-word novel (condensed to 20 pages). Michael Kimball attempts to explain all of it in the Afterword.

Author City: Baltimore, MD USA

Andy Devine's alphabetical fiction and essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including New York Tyrant, Unsaid, Elimae, Everyday Genius, and Taint. In 2002, he was awarded the Riddley Walker Prize (for a work that ignores conventional rules of grammar and punctuation). In 2007, he published a chapbook, "As Day Same That the the Was Year" (Publishing Genius). In 2009, Andy Devine was awarded The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Award (for fiction in the face of adversity). WORDS (2010, Publishing Genius) is his first book. Andy Devine Avenue--in Flagstaff, Arizona--is named after him.

Reviews and Other Links
http://andy-devine.com/
elimae interview with Josh Maday
Andy Devine's life story on a postcard
interview by Davis Schneiderman @ Big Other
Thomas Baughman