White Knuckle Sandwich, my old band with Jen Duffy-Perez and Anne Shapiro, now has an Instagram page. Check it out for many mementos from our checkered past!

I’m Still Bitter is now available on Bandcamp! You’ll probably want to listen to it. It contains 20 of my songs:

1. How Pleasant to Know Mr. Skinner
2. I’m Still Bitter
3. The Ball Game
4. Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Punch You No Face
5. I Don’t Want to Be the Pope in Rome
6. Bloated Plutocrats on Parade
7. We All Work So Hard
8. Money Is the Only Thing
9. The Rose
10. The Inchworm
11. Never Shtup a Nutjob
12. Free Wine
13. Adult Language
14. My Mistake
15. Somebody Said Something Offensive
16. People Like You
17. Ptooey
18. Quand vient le solstice
19. In Memoriam
20. Good Night

The instruments I play include digital keyboard, toy piano, ukulele, baritone ukulele, Tahitian ukulele, bulbul, cuatro venezolano, three-string bass, guzheng, psaltery, tremoloa, autoharp, tin whistle, tenor recorder, bells, and drum.

All songs were recorded and mixed by Brian Dewan. Thanks, Brian!

TYPO 14 is now available! For this issue, I contributed a short story, “The 23 Wounds,” a grisly yet slapstick account of Julius Caesar’s assassination. You can, by the way, also read it in my latest collection, Papa Bach and Other Stories.

My distinguished colleagues in this issue are Tim Newton Anderson, Károly Bari, Pierre Bettencourt, Steve Biersdorf , Jean Blanzat, Alex Cigale, Norman Conquest, Noël Devaulx, Shawn Garrett, Edward Gauvin, Elena Guro, Gabor G. Gyukics, Mark Kanak, Amy Kurman, George MacLennan, Dmitri Manin, Joshua Martin, Marty Newman, Sarah Louise Pieplow, Mirtha Pozzi, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jason E. Rolfe, Paul Rosheim, Genrikh Sapgir, Emilio Settumelli, Kristen Szumyn, John Vieira, Gregory Wallace, D. Harlan Wilson, Bill Wolak, and Nikolay Zabolotsky. The whole thing is edited and designed by Norman Conquest with his usual flair. You can find it here.

Papa Bach and Other Stories is now available from Black Scat Books!

Inside you will find the following 28 stories:

Entropy Goes Haywire
The Butler Bullion
Uncopyrightable
Papa Bach
Dover and Larson
The Garden of Eden
A Sunday Outing
Hush
The 23 Wounds
The Flotation Device
America’s New Currency
Open Call
Whitman Unblanked
The Dog and the Duck
Eclogue
Foursome
Bellocchio
The Ungracious Guest
Noel
The Mandrake’s Progress
Seven Fables
Jupiter Meteorology
A Tale of Two Sentences
The Market for Typos
The Search for an Ineffective Placebo
Reader Survey
The Presidents’ Tragedy
The Alphabet

Every story a gem! Every page a delight! You should probably buy and read it immediately!

This translation of Alfred Jarry’s early text, “Explanatory Memorandum on the Terrible Accident of February 30, 1891,” can be found in TYPO 13.

From a listing for the Good Press bookstore in Glasgow, here’s a photo of Music From Elsewhere. Apparently Scots are painting their nails to match the ink:

And here’s the book displayed in After 8 Books in Paris, on the rue Jarry. As a staunch ‘pataphysician, I am, of course, delighted. (Thanks to Sarah Walker for the photo.)

My 19th string quartet is subtitled “Cold Nights,” because the nights were cold when I wrote it. You don’t have to play it on cold nights, though. Here, as usual, is the first page.

TYPO 13 is now available from Black Scat Books! For this one, I contributed translations of a story by Tristan Bernard (“The Collector”), an essay by Gabriel de Lautrec (“Latin Symbolism”), and two short pieces by Alfred Jarry (“Explanatory Memorandum on the Terrible Accident of February 30, 1891” and “The Fiancé in Spite of Himself”), as well as an excerpt from a piece for microtonal zither, “Interlude in C.”

My imaginative colleagues are Madeleine de L’Aubépine, Marcel Béalu, Erik Belgum, Terry Bradford, R J Dent, Mike Ferguson, Rachel Galvin, Massimo Gatta, Edward Gauvin, Amy Kurman, George MacLennan, Alfred de Musset, Opal Louis Nations, Ernesto López Parra, Alejandro Albarrán Polanco, Bernard Quiriny, James Richie, George Sand, Walter Serner, Nile Southern, Lono Taggers, Corinne Taunay, Robin Tomens, Paul Willems, and Mark Wyatt. As usual, it’s edited and designed by Norman Conquest.