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Entries from October 2025

Papa Bach

October 21st, 2025 · No Comments

From TYPO 11 comes this tale of the Bach family, in which Johann Sebastian kicks out his many children so there will be enough roast duck for himself. They have to find musical positions themselves, which isn’t easy in a field with so many Bachs.

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String Quartet 14: ‘Cellos

October 13th, 2025 · 1 Comment

My 14th string quartet is for four ‘cellos, sawing industriously away on diatonic tone clusters and polyrhythms.

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TYPO 12

October 5th, 2025 · 3 Comments

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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