Duncan McGuire is a thirty-something year old writer, a proud father, and an arrogant bastard. His work can be best described as transgressive minimalism. Born and raised in northern California, Duncan currently resides in Long Beach, CA where he is finishing up the remaining few chapters of his historically ficticious novel, Bitches: A Love Story, and has written countless prose, short stories, and poetry. His work has often drawn comparisons to the likes of Charles Bukowski, Raymond Chandler, Douglas Coupland, Henry Miller, Chuck Palahniuk, and J.D. Salinger.

Transgressive Fiction*
Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual and/or illicit ways. Because they are rebelling against the basic norms of society, protagonists of transgressional fiction may seem mentally ill, anti-social and/or nihilistic. The genre deals extensively with taboo subject matters such as drugs, sex, violence, incest, pedophilia, and crime.

The genre of "transgressive fiction" was defined by Los Angeles Times literary critic Michael Silverblatt.[1] Anne H. Soukhanov, a journalist for the The Atlantic Monthly, described transgressive fiction thus:[1]

A literary genre that graphically explores such topics as incest and other aberrant sexual practices, mutilation, the sprouting of sexual organs in various places on the human body, urban violence and violence against women, drug use, and highly dysfunctional family relationships, and that is based on the premise that knowledge is to be found at the edge of experience and that the body is the site for gaining knowledge.

Literary minimalism*
Literary minimalism is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. Minimalist authors eschew adverbs and prefer allowing context to dictate meaning. Readers are expected to take an active role in the creation of a story, to "choose sides" based on oblique hints and innuendo, rather than reacting to directions from the author. The characters in minimalist stories and novels tend to be unexceptional.

* referenced from wikipedia