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Mark Wallace was born in 1962 in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. Between the ages of 8 and 17, with his father and brother he drove across the United States to Southern California on camping trips every summer, once going by way of Mexico City and once by way of Lake Banff, and he has spent time in all 48 of US mainland states.

The numerous bad jobs he has worked since the age of 15 are distinguished not by working class physical labor but by the low paid tedium of the contemporary world’s bureaucratic nightmare.

He received his Ph.D. from the State University at Buffalo with his dissertation The Gothic Universe in the Fiction of Paul Bowles and William Burroughs. He worked at Buffalo as a student assistant t
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Average rating: 3.86 · 278 ratings · 22 reviews · 40 distinct works
Telling It Slant: Avant Gar...

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4.64 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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Nothing Happened and Beside...

4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1997
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Temporary Worker Rides a Su...

4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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Haze: Essays, Poems, Prose

4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004
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The Quarry and The Lot

4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Felonies of Illusion

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008
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Walking Dreams: Selected Ea...

4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007
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Crab: A Novel

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Dead Carnival

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004
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The Big Lie

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000
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“Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.”
Mark Wallace, The Quarry and The Lot

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”
Mark Wallace, The Quarry and The Lot

“But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a funeral at which it seemed like almost nobody in attendance had any idea why they were there. His wife, who had heard things like this from him before, reminded him of a ceremony he had presided over only a few months ago about which he had had the same reaction. 'Oh right,' the minister said. 'Yes. That one was much worse.' He leaned down to the coffee table and picked up the remote.”
Mark Wallace, The Quarry and The Lot



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