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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My story Walter has been published in the inaugural issue of the Midwest Coast Review — I’m still trying to figure out what the midwest coast is. Download the PDF. Walter is not the first “Evil Men” story, that honor likely falls to Gilbert Glavel (available in Kitty Snacks #4), but he was the first [...]

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§316 · September 5, 2011 · lit · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


I had a piece picked up by the Carolina Quarterly for their inaugural online issue a while back and it’s finally up and available. The story behind the piece is this: shortly after I arrived in Chicago I started writing little art blurb review things for a couple of local publications. And art blurb review [...]

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