The Potato Farm is now available! This collection of thirty stories is my first book of short fiction since The Snowman Three Doors Down in 2018. What happens when constellations socialize, when Faust and the Devil start drinking, when imaginary friends gain imaginary friends, when Sleeping Beauty and Rip van Winkle trade places, when Duncan […]
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The Potato Farm
October 25th, 2023 · 2 Comments
Impasse
October 19th, 2023 · Comments Off on Impasse
A very short story, from my upcoming collection The Potato Farm. IMPASSE “I have nothing to say,” he said. “Who asked you?” she asked. “I won’t dignify that with a reply,” he replied. “Then I have nothing more to add,” she added.
Blessed and Cursed Alike, Chapter One
September 17th, 2023 · Comments Off on Blessed and Cursed Alike, Chapter One
Kiarna Boyd asked me to narrate her novel Blessed and Cursed Alike, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its publication. I called in Brian Dewan as engineer, and we managed to record the whole book in four days (not in a row). Kiarna has released the first chapter here. More will follow! Sex, violence, magic, […]
TYPO 3
August 18th, 2023 · Comments Off on TYPO 3
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 […]
A Concise Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
July 13th, 2023 · 2 Comments
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 […]
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
June 21st, 2023 · Comments Off on Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
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.
The Man Who Ate His House
June 5th, 2023 · 3 Comments
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 […]
Allais by Taunay
April 26th, 2023 · Comments Off on Allais by Taunay
Corinne Taunay holds up her striking portrait of Alphonse Allais, from my translation of Let’s Not Hit Each Other.
Translations
April 13th, 2023 · 2 Comments
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
March 28th, 2023 · Comments Off on TYPO 2
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 […]