I’m pleased to report that my book Music From Elsewhere is now available at Watkins Books, London’s oldest esoteric bookstore. You can see it here. You can also pick up a copy at San Francisco’s fabled bookstore City Lights. And you can see it here.

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TYPO 11 is now available from Black Scat Books! For this issue, I contributed a short story, “Papa Bach” (about Johann Sebastian Bach and his many children), short articles on the NY street artist Pantuso and on the Elizabethan polymath John Dee’s “Groundplat of Mathematics,” and a translation of Alphonse Allais’s short story “A Sensitive […]

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Considerations on the Death and Burial of Tristan Tzara is now available from Black Scat Books! Isidore Isou, the founder of the artistic movement Letterism, was a great admirer of the Dadaist Tristan Tzara. So, when Tzara died in 1963, Isou disrupted the funeral to give the great provocateur a properly raucous sendoff. Isou’s lively […]

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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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