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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TYPO 12 is now available from Black Scat Books! For this one, I contributed a short story (“The Flotation Device”), a “Reader Survey” for an imaginary novel, and a “Lipogrammatic Crossword”–a crossword puzzle shaped like the letter E, in which that letter is excluded from all the words and clues. My extraordinary colleagues in this […]

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For TYPO 6, I wrote an article on the Indisposizione di Belle Arti, a satirical exhibit organized by the Famiglia Artistica Milanese in Milan in 1881. It included conceptual pieces, parodies, monochromes, ready-mades, and other techniques later exploited by the Incohérents and Dadaists. Very little has been written about it in English. My article presented […]

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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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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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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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For many years, Meg Reichardt has invited musicians to contribute a song to her annual Holiday Recording Party. Thanks to her, I’ve written more holiday songs than I would have imagined. My latest one is about that hapless trio, the Three Wise Men. You can listen to it here, and here’s the first page.

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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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