David Hoenigman


David Hoenigman is an author of experimental literature and avant-garde literature. He has lived in Tokyo, Japan since 1998.

Interviews

Hoenigman regularly interviews avant-garde writers for the online journal Word Riot. Some of the writers he has interviewed for Word Riot include Mark Amerika, John Bennett, Norbert Blei, Tom Bradley, James Chapman, Billy Childish, Noah Cicero, Dennis Cooper, Debra Di Blasi, Shozin Fukui, Eckhard Gerdes, Richard Gilbert, Richard Kostelanetz, Stacey Levine, Jeffrey Lewis, Carole Maso, Scott McClanahan, Dawn Raffel, Davis Schneiderman, Jess C Scott, Ron Silliman, Judith Skillman, Terese Svoboda, and D. Harlan Wilson.
In November 2009, Hoenigman's interview with Yoko Ono appeared in The Japan Times. Hoenigman also interviewed Japanese film director and screenwriter, Kōji Shiraishi for .
Hoenigman's Sion Sono article was the cover story of the June 19, 2009 edition of Metropolis Magazine.

Works

Hoenigman's novel, Burn Your Belongings, has been described as "a brave exercise in anti-narrative, a reminder to us that there is more to writing and reading than best-sellers."
Word Riot compared the novel to the work of Samuel Beckett and Pierre Guyotat, summarizing the novel as "a well-crafted and adventurous book from what is undoubtedly a writer of great promise."
In a Rain Taxi interview, Hoenigman explains that Burn Your Belongings was an experimental work in the sense that he had no idea what the outcome would be: "I had some theories and some things I wanted to try, and I just let it fly from there... my attempt to present this chaos in a manageable form, like a piece of music."
His excerpts have appeared in Red Leaves / 紅葉, Smokebox, Zygote in My Coffee, SNReview, and Literate Machine.
Hoenigman is currently working on his second novel, Squeal For Joy, forthcoming from Jaded Ibis Press.

Reviews of David Hoenigman's Books