“The Meat Tree” in Dog­mat­ica in early April. 11Kwds or so. “The Calo­rie Doc­tor” in Sleep­ing Fish’s next issue. ~200 wds?

[ the title and the whole piece here may not make much sense–it may not anyway–without cue­ing into TheValve.org, which, it looks like, may have the orig­nial Mar­cus arti­cle in PDF ] Just what is exper­i­men­tal fic­tion, then? The eas­i­est def­i­n­i­tion for exper­i­men­tal or inno­v­a­tive or non-conventional fic­tion is fic­tion that, both at arm­slength and upon closer […]

hey, because some­body over at the Vel­vet asked for it, I dug up an old story I’d wholly for­got­ten about, sucked it into flash, put it in that lit­tle story list to the left, here. I remem­ber writ­ing all these, this ‘office’ series of sto­ries. ‘Ama­teur Hour’ was in there, as was that ‘Jumpers,’ still […]

hey, just got a note that that Cult interview’s live. It was my first IM-thing since ICQ debuted, back years and years and years ago. was a blast. Interview

first, the whole event: AWP Con­fer­ence. next, my part: Thurs­day March 9th, 10:00 — 10:45: a book­sign­ing for Bleed Into Me. I’d guess this’ll be at the Uni­ver­sity of Nebraska Press table in what­ever big room’s got all the tables/journals/etc. Thurs­day, March 9th, 12:00 — 1:15: a panel (“A Read­ing by the Fac­ulty of Texas Tech”). […]

This is just a hand­ful of sto­ries of mine that’ve been pub­lished around, which, if I under­stand cor­rectly, I can legally post here, should I want. So what the heck, yeah? Any­way, the dif­fer­ence in these and the ‘Sto­ries’ over to the right (and down a bit), in that other list, is that those stories […]

“Raphael,” in Ceme­tery Dance “Jumpers,” in Fresh Boiled Peanuts “Adul­tery: a Fail­ing Ses­tina,” Behind the Short Story “The Father­land is Rich and Var­ied,” Liq­uid Ohio (but they’re on hia­tus or some­thing…) twenty def­i­n­i­tions in Home Ground: a Lit­er­ary Glos­sary of the Land­scape and Lan­guage (Trin­ity Uni­ver­sity Press) (Barry Lopez, ed.) also was sup­posed to have a zombie-piece […]

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was pag­ing through a few-months-old note­book and stum­bled on this, which I’d copied down from Anto­nia Quirke’s bfi book on JAWS. bril­liant, bril­liant stuff: There are two types of mon­sters. The first is our incar­na­tion of fear. King Kong, Drac­ula, Godzilla. The other, of which the first shark­less hour of Jaws is a supreme exam­ple, is […]

No excuse for it, I’m sure, but some­how I missed BEWITCHED when it was at the the­ater. I mean, I loved the series–it’s kind of been instru­men­tal to my whole identity-formation-thing (it and I DREAM OF JEANNIE)–but had doubts they’d be able to cast an Esmerelda as good as the orig­i­nal. if I’m get­ting the […]