Selected Accidents, Pointless Anecdotes is his first prose collection. It consists of twenty-four miniature pieces, anecdotes taken from real life, the longest being four pages, and spanning thirty years from 1967 to 1997. The stories are not arranged chronologically, but instead are organized by an inner subtexual logic that makes complete subliminal sense to the reader within the illogic of the zany world Violi creates.