I appeared on Dean Bertram’s podcast Talking Weird to discuss my book Music From Elsewhere. You can see and/or hear it here.

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TYPO 10 is now available from Black Scat Books! I contributed a translation of an “illustrated sonnet” by Giambattista Palatino from 1540: one of the first published rebuses and a true treat for the eyes. I’m joined by a bewildering and international array of writers and graphic artists: Chiara Ambrosio, Tim Newton Anderson, Terry Bradford, […]

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Thomas Wilfred: Clavilux and Lumia Home Models is now available from Christine Burgin Books, as part of the Further Reading Library. Christine Burgin and Andrew Lampert edited it, and I wrote the introduction. Here’s the publisher’s description: Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968) devoted his life to the creation of a new art form, the art of light, […]

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Le Scat Noir’s Museum of the Inane is now available from Black Scat Books! This anthology of fiction, drawings, collages, and, above all, nonsense, was edited by Norman Conquest and features a glittering array of nonpareils: Rhys Hughes, Lono Taggers, Phil Demise Smith, T. Motley, Catulle Mendès, R J Dent, Boris Glikman, David Paddy, David […]

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Thanks to Winston Hunter, here’s a photo of Music From Elsewhere in the Juilliard Store in NYC. Read and learn, students!

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Feeding Time is now available from Black Scat Books! This collection of Alphonse Allais’s short pieces, originally published in 1897, shows the great French humorist at his best, spinning out stories, fables, dialogues, and articles with elegance and imagination. You’ll find clandestine train stations and incandescent leeks, the rules for attending funerals with a bicycle, […]

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Tyler Maxin snapped this photo of Music From Elsewhere in the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn. Thanks, Tyler! And I’m glad you enjoy it, Patrick!

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TYPO 9 is now available from Black Scat Books! I contributed a translation of Alphonse Allais’s story “The Crocodile and the Ostrich,” from my upcoming translation of his book Feeding Time. Caroline Crépiat drew a lovely illustration for it, as only she can. My fellow contributors are a stellar bunch: Chiara Ambrosio, Robert Archambeau, Pierre […]

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The Virtuoso Parrot is now available from Black Scat Books! Claude-Sosthène Grasset d’Orcet (1828-1900) wrote hundreds of startling articles and stories about secret societies, hidden bloodlines, and his own idiosyncratic views of history. His obsession with finding puns and rebuses, in both ancient inscriptions and modern speech, influenced generations of occultists; it was the inspiration […]

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TYPO 8 is now available from Black Scat Books! I contributed “A Biliteral Alphabet” and a translation of “The Virtuoso Parrot,” a short story by the enigmatic 19th century writer Claude-Sosthène Grasset d’Orcet. I’m surrounded by an international crowd of poets, essayists, fictioneers, and artists: Tim Newton Anderson, Tom Barrett, Terry Bradford, Steve Carll, Peter […]

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