This translation of Alfred Jarry’s early text, “Explanatory Memorandum on the Terrible Accident of February 30, 1891,” can be found in TYPO 13.

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From a listing for the Good Press bookstore in Glasgow, here’s a photo of Music From Elsewhere. Apparently Scots are painting their nails to match the ink: And here’s the book displayed in After 8 Books in Paris, on the rue Jarry. As a staunch ‘pataphysician, I am, of course, delighted. (Thanks to Sarah Walker […]

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My 19th string quartet is subtitled “Cold Nights,” because the nights were cold when I wrote it. You don’t have to play it on cold nights, though. Here, as usual, is the first page.

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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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