Visiting Hours

by Christopher WunderLee

Visiting Hours brings together an eclectic assortment of WunderLee's prose, from well-known pieces that highlight his inventive approach to writing, like "A Chat with Howl", in which he interviews the `voice' of Allen Ginsberg's famous poem; to "The Cock and The Bull", a satirical `memoir' teeming with editorial footnotes clarifying the supposed actual events (WunderLee's unique take on the recent spate of counterfeit memoirs); to the much-anthologized "Killer Martin", in which a 'reverse samaritan' works to do his part in bringing about our demise (denting cans at supermarkets, handing out samples of smack, etc.), to "The Pancake of Bryant Lane", an allegory about a couple who finds the image of the devil burnt onto a flapjack one morning and attempt to sell it for profit. The collection highlights why WunderLee is one of the most witty, humorous and literary authors writing today.

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 4, 2007

About the author

Christopher WunderLee is a Seattle Author.
I haven’t decided if I am a writer yet. I don’t believe because someone writes they are a writer any more than I think because I can swim I am a swimmer. I tend to draw from reading and since I am still a reader and still learn from reading, it seems to me that I am still learning about writing…
I write and edit for a living. The stuff I do for work is significantly different than what I do for myself (although both nowadays tend to revolve around books) so the affect is minimal. I learn from what I have to write or edit professionally and then I throw it out when I write fiction.

Reviews

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a hilarious, incredible, scary book with some of the most interesting, funny short stories i've read in a long time. if you've read any of hsi novels, you know he has a wicked sense of humor, and this collection shows it off so well. his experimental ideas are the most clever i think out there. he has a conversation with the voice of the poem Howl and scewers just about everyone when the Loch Ness monstr is discovered, and has a 'reverse samaritan' who spends all of his time trying to make the world a worse place by denting cans, putting holes in condoms, peeing on trees, all this stuff. my favorite is one where a couple finds the face of the devil burnt into a pancake one morning and decide they can make lots of dough of it on the internet. there's so many theological, laugh-out-loud questions.
I would highly recommend this book!