Miguel Syjuco's Experimental Process for His Experimental Novel

Miguel Syjuco started with a 200,000 word novel, then cut it up into 10 separate Word documents, then cut it up again into a physical bricolage of numerous paper strips. A few years later he had the award-winning ILUSTRADO.

Reviews, interviews, more media, and the "selected bibliography" of Crispin Salvador
us.macmillan.com/ilustrado

"Brilliantly conceived, and stylishly executed, [Ilustrado] covers a large and tumultuous historical period with seemingly effortless skill. It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humor." --2008 Man Asian Literary Prize Panel of Judges