TYPO 3 is now available! For the third issue of this inimitable publication, I contributed a parody of Oscar Wilde (“Bosie’s Translation”), an article on the design of single-serve salt packets, a design for a Hawaiian Ouija board, and a translation of a letter by Aloysius Bertrand, as well as examples from my collection of […]

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A Concise Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality is now out from Black Scat Books and available on Amazon! I was one of many scholars who contributed to this essential reference work. Here’s Black Scat’s description: First came the groundbreaking Le Scat Noir Encyclopaedia in 2017. Three years later we launched the pataphysical classic Le Scat Noir […]

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That remarkable Welsh writer, Rhys Hughes, edited this delightful anthology, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: light verse about life and other heavy things. I’m one of 39 contributors, with seven fables in verse. It’s published by Gibbon Moon Books, and can be found on Amazon.

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The Man Who Ate His House is now available from Black Scat Books and available on Amazon! For this curious little volume, Derek Pell and I selected plots from the cautionary writer’s manual 101 Plots Used and Abused (James N. Young, 1945), modified and combined them in various ways, and fed them to ChatGPT. The […]

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Corinne Taunay holds up her striking portrait of Alphonse Allais, from my translation of Let’s Not Hit Each Other.

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I never expected to write so many literary translations. They keep adding up, however. Here’s a list, arranged by author, of both books and shorter pieces, for anyone who’s curious. Albert-Birot, Pierre: “Four Poems” (Typo 2, 2023) Allais, Alphonse: Captain Cap: His Adventures, His Ideas, His Drinks (Black Scat, 2013) Selected Plays (Black Scat, 2014) The […]

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TYPO 2 is now out and ready to be read! This sporadic periodical calls itself a “Journal of Lettrism, Surrealist Semantics, and Constrained Design.” I contributed brief articles on alien alphabets and the principles of double talk, the score for my musical transcription of “lorem ipsum dolor,” and translations of Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Albert-Birot, and […]

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Let’s Not Hit Each Other is now available from Black Scat Books! This collection by the incomparable Alphonse Allais includes a flying whale, an inflatable colonel, telepathic snails, a summer crime, the insularization of France, missionary parrots, an amphibious herring, twin cousins, and proposals for billboard dogs, deodorized urine, calming the sea with varnish, and crossing […]

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An alphabet that’s both categorical and musical. HORN Alphorn Bullhorn Car Horn Drinking Horn English Horn French Horn Greenhorn Horn Inkhorn Jawhorn Krummhorn Leghorn Matterhorn New Horn Old Horn Pronghorn Quadruple Horn Ramshorn Stinkhorn Tinhorn Überhorn Valve Horn Waldhorn Xanthohorn Yak Horn Zink

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Corinne Taunay’s chapbook Marcel Duchamp: Paris Air in New York, in my translation, is displayed in the window of Les Ateliers du Tayrac in Paris, on the occasion of her show of portraits of artists and writers. It’s small, but you can see it at the bottom of the left window, if you click on […]

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