Author: D. Harlan Wilson

D. Harlan Wilson writes experimental speculative fiction and criticism with a sustained interest in media, celebrity, and unstable reality. Outré follows an aging screen actor caught in a world where performance and identity become increasingly difficult to separate. Wilson’s official book page documents Raw Dog Screaming Press publishing the novel in 2020, and the publisher’s record presents it as a surreal satire of entertainment culture. That combination of author and publisher evidence places the work within Wilson’s broader practice of mixing genre forms with academic and cultural inquiry. Outré uses the machinery of film, roles, and public image to ask what remains when a performer’s constructed selves begin to dominate private experience. Its strangeness is purposeful rather than ornamental, making familiar celebrity narratives feel unreliable. Readers drawn to unconventional fiction will find a compact novel that moves between speculative distortion and media critique, with an actor’s career providing the lens through which aging, ambition, and manufactured identity are examined.