Bill Ectric’s collection Themes, Dreams, and Weems includes a number of curious things, among them an interview he conducted with me about my translation of Pierre-Corneille Blessebois’s libertine novel The Zombie of Great Peru. Weems, if you were wondering, was the notorious Parson Weems, who concocted the story of George Washington’s antics with the cherry […]

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White Knuckle Sandwich, my old band with Jen Duffy-Perez and Anne Shapiro, now has an Instagram page. Check it out for many mementos from our checkered past!

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I’m Still Bitter is now available on Bandcamp! You’ll probably want to listen to it. It contains 20 of my songs: 1. How Pleasant to Know Mr. Skinner 2. I’m Still Bitter 3. The Ball Game 4. Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Punch You No Face 5. I Don’t Want to Be the Pope in […]

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TYPO 14 is now available! For this issue, I contributed a short story, “The 23 Wounds,” a grisly yet slapstick account of Julius Caesar’s assassination. You can, by the way, also read it in my latest collection, Papa Bach and Other Stories. My distinguished colleagues in this issue are Tim Newton Anderson, Károly Bari, Pierre Bettencourt, Steve Biersdorf , Jean […]

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