The Manuscript

Finally. After nearly four years, I finally finished my new book, TIME MASTER.

It's about life, dreams, and vindictive future selves.

More info to come...

The Canal: The Video

Go behind the scenes of my book, The Canal, and see the place that inspired it: the highly polluted, yet strangely endearing, Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York.



And in light of recent events, please consider donating to Hurricane Sandy relief!

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Bad Photos Of Writers (Continued)

I recently saw Martin Amis in conversation with Matthew Weiner (the creator of Mad Men) as part of the Writers Bloc series. Not sure I quite understand the reasoning behind the pairing, but I'm a huge Amis fan (Money is one of my all time favorite books) and I managed to get yet another mediocre photo of a writer out of it (heads in the foreground are becoming my signature style).

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Of Interest

-Delillo's Cosmopolis is now a movie directed by David Cronenberg. Here's the trailer.

-My current book is about a 20-year-old who meets his 40-year-old self. Meanwhile, here's video of a 30-year-old meeting his 12-year-old self.

-And, for no better reason other than I'm reading it at the moment, here's Jonathan Franzen writing about Donald Antrim's The Hundred Brothers.

The Canal: A Visit

While in New York recently, I made sure to pay a visit to the gritty-as-ever Gowanus Canal. Much fun was had, and much floating debris was witnessed. I shot a lot of video while I was there, and am currently in the process of editing it all together. In the meantime, here's a few pics of some rainy canal action.

-Previous Canal Posts

*Special thanks to my incredible girlfriend Maggie for the photos. (click to enlarge)

Moby Dick: The Video Game

In which your goal is to avoid being defeated by hours upon hours of whaling minutiae.

-Moby Dick: The Video Game

Signed

...by the man himself.

Book Shirt

Mao II

Don Delillo reading from Mao II (which I recently finished).

And on a Youtube-related side note, this is an interesting interview: David Foster Wallace on Charlie Rose.

Big Sur

It's the photo of the Henry Miller museum sign that you've been dying to see.

Got a copy of Aller Retour New York while there. For the lofty literary reason that it was cheap.

Also reading Kerouac's Big Sur.

Read Me At: West Branch Wired

You can now read my short story "The Swarm" online, over at the lit journal West Branch's website.

"The Swarm" is a love story, with a water slide and diet pills. Plus a blind fish gets eaten. Hope you enjoy.

-The Swarm [West Branch Wired]

Bad Photos Of Writers

I've been to a couple of events recently at the downtown L.A. library as part of the very cool ALOUD series. And since I've got to fill space on this f'ing website somehow...

(From l to r) Moderator David L. Ulin, Jonathan Lethem, Steve Erickson, Pamela Jackson, and Laura Leslie.

The above pic is from the Philip K. Dick symposium on November 14th, marking the release of Dick's The Exegesis. Lethem is second from the left. My girlfriend was interested to learn that time is round.

(From l to r) Colson Whitehead, enormous skull, and moderator David Kipen.

In the distance and to the left sits Colson Whitehead, on the October release of Zone One. The real story though is the huge head that's taking over this entire picture. Such body! Such bounce!