Book Synopsis
Empty Puppets
The Selected Correspondence & Miscellanea of Doyce Whisanant, 1974–2014
Edited by Tony Arnold
Forty years of one man's letters, rants, confessions, and cosmic accusations — assembled, allegedly without his permission, into the strangest epistolary memoir you'll read this decade.
Doyce Whisanant is nobody you've heard of, and that's the joke. Across four decades he writes to lovers, enemies, editors, and a small trans-dimensional entity called The WM, documenting a life that lurches from schoolyard blasphemy to loading-dock brawls to a religious awakening of highly dubious pedigree. It's a mock-memoir, a hoax, a satire of the confessional genre itself — equal parts pulp adventure, tent-revival hysteria, and barstool philosophy, narrated by a man who insists none of it is fiction while the publisher insists it has to be.
Part of the sprawling, self-mythologizing Whisanant catalog from White Devil Press, this one's earned its own reputation: Immoderate Living Magazine called it exactly the kind of book any pulp fiction reader — and any fisherman — would be proud to keep close at hand.
Not for the easily offended. Absolutely for anyone who thinks the "found letters" genre could stand to be a lot funnier, a lot filthier, and a lot less trustworthy.
Reserve your copy before Whisanant finds out about this and sues.