Cover Art for Auto/ethnographies

My book of sociological essays, Auto/ethnographies: Sex, Death and Symbolic Interaction in the Eighth Moment of Qualitative Inquiry, is forthcoming from Borgo Press, with this cover art:

Now Out — A “Critifictional” Look at Bukowski and Carver

You can order it here.
It will be on Amazon, bn.com, etc. in a week or two…
The Dirty Realism Duo: Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver on the Aesthetics of the Ugly
Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver were credited as the fathers of the “Dirty Realism” genre in the 1980s—branching out from minimalism, the stripping of fiction down [...]

Fiction International

I have a suite of five flash fictions, “Five Freaks,” in the Freak Issue of the new Fictional International #41. Two of the stories are included in Pictures of Houses with Water Damage, a BLP 2010 title.

My Study on Gordon Lish

Gordon Lish and His Influence on Twentieth Century American Literature: the Life and Times of Captain Fiction should be out Summer 2009 from Routledge.

The Watermelon

My screenplay, The Watermelon, was made into a nifty movie by LightSong Films, directed by Brad Mays.  It made its first appearance in September, 2008, at the San Diego Film Festival.  In 2009, it will be seen in more fesitvals and, hopefully, sold to a good distribution company that will “get it out there,” as [...]

My Critical Study on William T. Vollmann

This one will be out April, 2009.
Talking bugs, electricity, the founding of empires, hobos, Nazis, whores, violence, drugs, murder, secret cabals, Heaven, Hell—William T. Vollmann is a writer of enormous novels that are stuffed with entire worlds of creation and destruction. This first ever book-length critical study traces his career to date with chapters devoted [...]

New Book of Reflexive Ethnography

Zona Norte is finally available.
Hardback published  by Cambridge Scholars in the U.K.
Next year, The Borgo Press (imprint of Wildside Press) will release a less-expensive paperback version.

Black Lawrence Press Announcement

See here.
Pictures of Houses with Water Damage, my literary  short story collection will be published mid-2010.  Seems like such a long time but I also know it’ll be here sooner than I think…