Hidden Door Journal 002, edited by Lewis Gittus, Sarah Jones, and Sarah Walker, is now available! I contributed an article on Project Hermes, the attempt by fans of the visionary writer Richard Shaver to build the telepathy machines described in his stories. The journal is published in a handmade edition of 40, and only a […]

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Bill Ectric’s collection Themes, Dreams, and Weems includes a number of curious things, among them an interview he conducted with me about my translation of Pierre-Corneille Blessebois’s libertine novel The Zombie of Great Peru. Weems, if you were wondering, was the notorious Parson Weems, who concocted the story of George Washington’s antics with the cherry […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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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”), […]

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Here’s another story from my 2023 collection The Potato Farm. Nevil reads a detective novel, amid trouble at work and his growing curiosity about its elusive author. There are 13 chapters of 250 words apiece; here’s the first one. NEVIL READS A NOVEL CHAPTER ONE Nevil settles into his armchair, setting the glass on the […]

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This affecting tale of roommate conflict can be found in TYPO 12. Don’t worry; it has a happy ending.

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This lipogrammatic crossword appears in TYPO 12. It excludes the letter E from all of the words and clues. The photo is of that master lipogrammist Georges Perec. The solution can be consulted after the break.

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