William Walsh
William Walsh is the author of Without Wax: A Documentary Novel. His fiction and derived texts have appeared in New York Tyrant, Caketrain, Juked, Rosebud, Quarterly West, Lit, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and other journals.
Praise for Without Wax
"An audacious debut, Walsh’s documentary novel delivers a formal inventiveness that is remarkable."
- Michael Kimball, Dear Everybody
"Without Wax is full of the electric, the taboo, the sad bizarre. There's no doubt Walsh knows what he's doing, and that he's willing to go wherever necessary to find and render something new."
- Blake Butler, Rain Taxi
"Walsh patiently ventures into the inner worlds of his strange and compelling characters, knitting together a text that's part pornography exposé, part coming of age story, part love story, part social excavation."
- Sherrie Flick, I Call This Flirting
“The real magic of Without Wax is Walsh’s ability to make the reader have so much empathy and sympathy for the protagonist, Wax Williams.”
- Jeff Vande Zande, Into the Desperate Country
"Without Wax is entertaining and compulsively readable, getting as close to watching its filmic incarnation as the written word will allow."
- Josh Maday, NewPages
"This book is infinitely quotable, full of lines that are sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and often just drop dead sexy, all coming together to create a wide variety of surprising responses, an effect that Walsh pulls off again and again."
- Matt Bell's LitBlog
“Walsh’s documentary approach is clever. The method not only explicitly turns us into voyeurs, it also objectifies everyone we meet, with no room for editorial comment.”
- Bill Rodriguez, Boston Phoenix
“[Without Wax] is a well-written and thoughtful book. Walsh has been very careful to write in a manner faithful to the documentary ideal of objectivity.”
- Richard Marcus, BlogCritics
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