This is something I stuck up on my fb and tumblr upon my return from Angkor Wat and for posterities sake will stick it up here as well.    On the highest spire (?) of Pre Rup – the sun is descending behind the clouds – no one is watching. I am not watching either [...]

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My short essay “My Balkan Holiday: Sarajevo” is now out in the new issue of The Rattling Wall. I haven’t yet seen the book, but I imagine it to be pretty cool and professional as the magazine is affiliated with Pen USA and I’m honored to be sharing the pages with some pretty heavy hitters. Thanks [...]

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There are a couple funny stories about this story (Song for Occupations up now at Flywheel Magazine). Actually not very funny, and it’s not really a story, but (sorta) one of those lyric essay things I seem to be doing of late (though this was not done “of late”). That first sentence was totally incorrect. [...]

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I’m pleased to announce that my lyric-essay-thing-type-piece How to Cross the Street in Saigon has been published as part of the This Modern Writer Series on the PANK blog. This is the first piece I’ve written in its entirety since I’ve been in Vietnam and I was thrilled it got picked up and picked up [...]

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The Candidate (after Matthew Barney) is out in the new HORROR issue of LIES/ISLE. Good stuff all around in there. Here’s a link to Matthew Barney’s film that inspired me to write the story. It was Cremaster 4 in particular that I was thinking of; watch the cars race around for a while and you [...]

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