"He’s a Dostoyevskian reader, and though that could mean many things, in his case, it means that he reads in the manner in which he imagines that Dostoyevsky wrote—ravenous, staggering through his dimly-lit apartment clutching the book, luminous with something teetering between ecstasy and epilepsy, ingesting swathes of prose in desperate gulps like an infant born undersized, suckling harder." --from "Circulation"
News and Updates*Work available online.NEW *8/15 - Along with 31 scholars of various stripes, I respond to a target article by Joseph Carroll, a state-of-the-field assessment of Literary Darwinism. You can see my contribution, and the whole discussion, which will appear in the journal Style later this year. NEW *8/7 - A flash piece, "Unposed, Mountain Backdrop" can be found at Six Sentences. NEW 7/8 - My novella "Circulation" will be released as a short book by the good folks at Sunnyoutside Press, a Buffalo-based publisher. Stay tuned for more info on a release date. NEW 7/1 - JUST OUT! "Planetarium," conceived in a Bronx high school, hatched in Arizona's mountains under a spell of Alaskan light, and transplanted to Montana, has found a home at last in the desert at Puerto del Sol. Look or ask for it at your local bookstore that stocks litmags. NEW 6/6 - I am wrapping up a three-week stint at Yaddo, where I've been revising the novel and various stories. NEW *5/14 - "Urban Planning Case Study the Fifth" can now be seen at Web Conjunctions. 3/24 - One may procure "A Box of One's Own" in the upcoming Issue 10 of Mad Hatters' Review. 3/18 - Night Train 8.1 has arrived with "Today's Tall Tales" and plenty else to keep you out of trouble. 2/28 - "Urban Planning: Case Study Number Four" will appear in the Spring 2008 issue of Fiction. 1/14 - A sextet? A sestiad? A six pack? A six-shooter? Whatever you want to call it, I'll have six stories in Six Sentences, Volume 1, the first-ever anthology of six-sentence-long stories. Due out on April 15th, it is available from Amazon here. Check out editor Rob McEvily on YouTube. Has anyone ever believed in a book more fervently? ↑ 2008 ↑ 11/18 - I'll be giving a reading and running a workshop at Colby-Sawyer College for Word Order, the student literary organization, on the 29th of November. *10/15 - Urban Revival...The first "Urban Planning: Case Study" can be heard at the latest Soundzine. The original lives on here, at Sein und Werden. *10/1 - I can be short-winded on occasion, too. As proof, check out "In the Lab," posted at Six Sentences. 10/1 - I am on the staff of Grub Street Writers, Boston's indie hub of Creative Writing classes and happenings. On March 24, '08 I'll teach a class called "Cortiscrawl: Writing with the Brain in Mind." *Hear me read from the novel in Eugene on the Readings/Talks page. Another issue of Sein und Werden, theme "Ghosts and Clowns" (but not in the same story), can only mean...another installment in the "Urban Planning" series. Order the print edition here. Two reviews of the issue which mention the story can be found hither and thither. *Listen up...The Complicator (the character and the story) is at Soundzine, a new audio-based literary journal. Read by yours truly. Issue #2 came out July 15th--rig up your Dolby Surround Sound System today! *My story "Auditing" can be found at 3: AM Magazine. Bring water. The latest print edition of Sein und Werden, with the theme "Rejectamanta," ships, appropriately enough, in a bag. "Urban Planning: Case Study II" is included. More info here. Read a review, which makes reference to my story, here. *The April/May issue of Eclectica includes my story "The Rhino of the Real." Online now. "Rhino" recently received the Thomas Williams Memorial Award at UNH. Issue 0.9375 of SleepingFish is available, including the short-short entitled "The Gendarmes." Ordering info on-site. The latest pacificREVIEW, which finishes with my story "Workshop," is available for purchase ($17) or download ($7.50). Sneak a peek at the new issue here: pacificREVIEW 2006-07. The Abiko Annual with James Joyce is available, with the story "The Copy Editor's Wake" and a ten-page interview with me on Finnegans Wake. Copies are $20. To order, send an international money order to Tatsuo Hamada at Hananoi 1787-28, Kashiwa-shi 277-0812, Japan (Don’t write Abiko Annual or ALP office in the receiver). Check out the table of contents: The Abiko Annual 2007 "The Quality of Air" will appear in Drumlummon Views (due out this winter). This story is steeped in the landscape of Montana, out of which the journal is based. ↑ 2007 ↑ *"The Understory," my first published story, won the 2006 Raymond Carver Prize, judged by Bill Henderson. The sponsoring journal, Carve Magazine, is revamping right now, and the story will be archived here eventually. Here's a temporary copy: The Understory. Print it out double-sided! "The Understory" was republished in Issue 4 of Seventh Quark, a British journal. Learn more here: Seventh Quark. It was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize. The story "The Complicator" was also published in 7Q4 of Seventh Quark. Cranky Magazine has published the short-short "The Dropped Glove" in their Jan. '07 issue. A finalist in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest. "Circulation" won the 2006 prize of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, was a Glimmer Train contest finalist, and was praised by Conjunctions editor Bradford Morrow. Not yet published, this one will see the light of day eventually, I promise. "Running Lights," though unpublished, was a finalist in Glimmer Train's Short-story Contest for New Writers in Fall 2004. |
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