Part travelogue, part autofiction, part record of living under Western regimes that torture, kidnap, and murder its own citizens and those who wish to cross its borders, White Lie is a collection of super-short fictions. Written to be read in a book, but written on a phone, about that technology, about how our stories today blend into factual-seeming fictions and lying propaganda. Repressed memories of living in repressive societies. Like Tierra Whack's album of one-minute rap songs or Stan Douglas' Monodramas. Shorter than a stand-up comic's joke and longer than a criminal tyrannical president's tweet. A museum room full of paintings you zoom thru in thirty seconds or Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould. New fakes for attention spans that ... what was I saying? Something something the age of distraction. You get me. Clint Burnham's White Lie is a series of quick bursts - hilarious, tragic, and thoughtful in turn. You won't forget these paragraph-length stories because you will read them again and again.
- ISBN10 1772141747
- ISBN13 9781772141740
- Publish Date 15 August 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Anvil Press Publishers Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 144
- Language English