"He’s a Dostoyevskian reader, and though that could mean many things, in his case, it means that he reads in the manner in which he imagines that Dostoyevsky wrote—ravenous, staggering through his dimly-lit apartment clutching the book, luminous with something teetering between ecstasy and epilepsy, ingesting swathes of prose in desperate gulps like an infant born undersized, suckling harder." --from "Circulation"
News and Updates*Work available online.5/6/11 - Some of what you thought you knew about the life and times of Paul Gauguin might be wrong. Find out more in my short short story, "Altered Native," which has stowed away in CONJUNCTIONS 56: Terra Incognita.  5/1/11 - I'm immensely pleased to announce that my short story collection, tentatively UNDERSTORIES, will be published by Bellevue Literary Press in the Spring of 2012. I couldn't be more excited to work with the splendid team at Bellevue.   11/26/10 - Time for another loosely-jointed update. The past couple of months, some short pieces of mine have appeared online: "Internodium" at Everyday Genius, "The Lobby" at JMWW, and "Urban Planning Case Study #7" at Wigleaf. All of these journals dissolve pretty regularly against my reading palate, and so I'm delighted to find myself in them. Oh, plus a postcard of mine can be found at the Wigleaf homepage, where you'd also be missing out if you didn't check out the talent of xTx, Amber Sparks, and many others. *11/20/10 - Did I mention that I'm now blogging at BIG OTHER, one of my favorite online lit-blogs? 9/6/10 - This page has no relation to Timothy Horvath of Chicago, but to his friends, family, and loved ones, you have my deepest sympathy in a time of hardship. *9/6/10 - I've been derelict. Things have come out: "Inadvertent Literature: The State of the Industry Report. Where do We Go From Here?" and "Sections" at JMWW, whose flash fiction section is now edited by the tireless and amazing John Madera. While we're at it, here are a couple that might've slipped betwixt the cracks: "The Examined Life" at Dogzplot, and a really long sentence about (still!) probably my favorite novel, Norman Rush's Mating, that appeared at the not-to-be-missed blog Big Other. *Last but not least, look for "The City in the Light of Moths" forthcoming in CONJUNCTIONS 55: Urban Arias this November. The title refers in part to Stan Brakhage's great short film "Mothlight," which you can watch HERE until all you see is moth after moth and moth on moth and undermoth and even when you shut your eyes moth you see 'em moth till you're convinced it's moths all the way down...  *9/5/10 - Some dead links fixed on the Links page, most especially an interview of Joshua Cohen and a review of his first novel, written in '07. Given the recent surge of interest in Cohen's work, I thought it behooved me to reanimate these. 5/5 - Camera Obscura, a new journal of fiction and photography for which I am an associate prose editor, is OUT and available and get on it. Writers like Nani Power and Kane X. Faucher will make splendorous things happen in your chaise longue. The photos will make you want to convert that spare room into a darkroom, rousting out the guest who's been sleeping there that you can't identify anyway. I had nothing to do with the photos, so I can boast about them like they're my kid's friends. Boils down to: check it out.  NEW 4/10 - My essay "First Do Not Bore: Gaining and Sustaining Attention in Contemporary Literary Fiction" can be found in SUNY Press's brand-new journal, The Evolutionary Review, amidst articles about the evolutionary psychology of Facebook, American Idol, and comics. The articles are also available individually as pdf files if you follow the link, and you can have Brian Boyd's article on comics for FREE!  1/3/10-Happy New Year! Thanks so much to Paulette Licitra and Peter Selgin of Alimentum and David McNamara of Sunnyoutside for nominating works of mine for Pushcart Prizes this year. Also, thanks to Jason Jordan, editor of decomP, for choosing Circulation as his favorite chapbook of 2009. Be sure to check out his other picks, too. 12/16/09 I taught a Grub Street class called "More AND Less: Varieties of Minimalism and Maximalism." Carrie Kei Heim Binas, one of the students, breaks it down in a couple of great blog entries. Check 'em out: More/Less and So What IS Minimalism/Maximalism? *12/13/09 - My review of Blake Butler's Scorch Atlas up at Identity Theory, and an article about Tom Lee, a remarkable professor of Natural Resources at UNH, which mentions "The Understory," originally written for his class. 11/9/09 - "The Discipline of Shadows" is OUT in the Hybrid Histories issue (#53) of CONJUNCTIONS. I highly recommend the whole issue, with offerings from the likes of Gass, Coover, and West, as well as up-and-comers like Matt Bell, Gabriel Blackwell, and Andrew Ervin. Viva umbrologia!  NEW 10/28/09 - I had a blast reading with Elizabeth Graver at my very own Chester College as part of the Visiting Writers Series. Teaching at an arts school, I often find myself in the presence of great posters, like this one created by Emily Brochu.  NEW 9/29/09 - Ravi Mangla interviewed me over at his Recommended Reading blog. Be sure to get lost in the archives, too. 9/13/09 - I read with three others at Four Stories in Cambridge on Monday the 14th. The theme was "The Long Goodbye: Stories of Endings and Loss." A recording recorded itself just for you at Tim MP3.  7/31/09 - I read, along with five others, at the grand opening of The Workshop, a new writers' space in a mill that's been converted to art studios in Rollinsford, NH. Wine flowed, appetizers glistened, and literati paraded about in their natural habitat. 6/19/09 - I read at Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, Long Island. Sunday, July 26th at 4 pm. 6/11/09 - On Tuesday, June 16th, I appeared on the Somerville Public Access TV show "Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer," hosted by Doug Holder. 6/9/09 - Craving another slab of "Urban Planning"? Number Six is out and about in Alimentum: The Literature of Food in the Summer 2009 issue. Is this piece about food? Of course. Urban Planning? Well, yes. When food spills in Vassilonia, the five-second rule extends years. Read the story to learn more.  6/7/09 - "A Box of One's Own" has been selected as a notable online story for 2009 and will be listed in DZANC's Best of the Web Anthology. I will read at Riverrun Books in Portsmouth on October 6th along with others who appear in the book. 5/12/09 - "The Gendarmes" was reviewed as part of Short Story Month at the Emerging Writers Network. Dzanc Books has compiled and conveniently bound many of the reviews, and for a ten dollar tax deductible donation you can snag one. 4/7/09 - Six Sentences Volume 2 is now available here. My flashes "Time Zones" and "Chomsky, I Love You Dearly" are in the dogpile, as is a Rick Moody piece and a Neil LaBute overture. 3/5/09 - "CIRCULATION" is available for order from Sunnyoutside Press. It has been blogged about and/or reviewed at What to Wear During an Orange Alert, NewPages.com, Reading is Breathing, The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene, the Georges Perec issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction.,The Chapbook Review and in Rebecca Makkai's response at Writers Read.   12/30 - The flash piece "Pocket" is an emergent property of the underlying particles of DIAGRAM 9.2. Cami Park blogs about it here. 12/22 - "Circulation" received a mention at Dan Wickett's Emerging Writers Network blog as a book he's looking forward to in 2009. Check it out here. *A couple of six sentence pieces to nosh on: "Control" and "Winterizing." 11/30 - Upcoming readings at Primal Tongue and Dire Literary Series. Check the Readings page. *10/15 - My article "Dance, Brain, Dance!" appears in the Grub Street Free Press. The piece summarizes one of the lessons from the Cortiscrawl class *10/10 - You may now procure "A Box of One's Own" in the latest Mad Hatters' Review, Issue Number 10, along with countless other oddities. 10/10 - In the spring, I will teach Advanced Fiction Writing at Chester College of New England. 10/10 - FICTION Number 54 is out with "Urban Planning: Case Study Number Four" and lots of other fine work.  *8/15 - Literary Darwinism has been written up in The New York Times Magazine and Seed, among other places. Now, along with 31 scholars of various stripes, I respond to a target article by Joseph Carroll, author of the book Literary Darwinism, as he gives an assessment of the state of the field. You can see my contribution, and the whole discussion, which will appear in the journal Style later this year. My piece, while the only one from the standpoint of a working fiction writer, is hardly the most contentious--there's some serious jousting here. 8/7 - A flash piece, "Unposed, Mountain Backdrop" can be found at Six Sentences. 7/8 - My novella "Circulation" will be released as a short book by the good folks at Sunnyoutside Press, a Buffalo-based publisher. Slated for release in January of 2009. 7/1 - JUST OUT! "Planetarium," conceived in a Bronx high school, hatched in Arizona's mountains under a spell of Alaskan light, and transplanted to Montana, has found a home at last in the desert at Puerto del Sol. Look or ask for it at your local bookstore that stocks litmags.  6/6 - I am wrapping up a three-week stint at Yaddo, where I've been revising the novel and various stories. *5/14 - "Urban Planning Case Study the Fifth" can now be seen at Web Conjunctions. *3/18 - Night Train 8.1 has arrived with "Today's Tall Tales" and plenty else to keep you out of trouble. 1/14 - A sextet? A sestiad? A six pack? A six-shooter? Whatever you want to call it, I'll have six stories in Six Sentences, Volume 1, the first-ever anthology of six-sentence-long stories. Due out on April 15th, it is available from Amazon here. Check out editor Rob McEvily on YouTube. Has anyone ever believed in a book more fervently? ↑ 2008 ↑ 11/18 - I'll be giving a reading and running a workshop at Colby-Sawyer College for Word Order, the student literary organization, on the 29th of November. *10/15 - Urban Revival...The first "Urban Planning: Case Study" can be heard at the latest Soundzine. The original lives on here, at Sein und Werden. *10/1 - I can be short-winded on occasion, too. As proof, check out "In the Lab," posted at Six Sentences. 10/1 - I am on the staff of Grub Street Writers, Boston's indie hub of Creative Writing classes and happenings. On March 24, '08 I'll teach a class called "Cortiscrawl: Writing with the Brain in Mind." *Hear me read from the novel in Eugene on the Readings/Talks page. Another issue of Sein und Werden, theme "Ghosts and Clowns" (but not in the same story), can only mean...another installment in the "Urban Planning" series. Order the print edition here. Two reviews of the issue which mention the story can be found hither and thither. *Listen up...The Complicator (the character and the story) is at Soundzine, a new audio-based literary journal. Read by yours truly. Issue #2 came out July 15th--rig up your Dolby Surround Sound System today! *My story "Auditing" can be found at 3: AM Magazine. Bring water. The latest print edition of Sein und Werden, with the theme "Rejectamanta," ships, appropriately enough, in a bag. "Urban Planning: Case Study II" is included. More info here. Read a review, which makes reference to my story, here. *The April/May issue of Eclectica includes my story "The Rhino of the Real." Online now. "Rhino" recently received the Thomas Williams Memorial Award at UNH. Issue 0.9375 of SleepingFish is available, including the short-short entitled "The Gendarmes." Ordering info on-site. The latest pacificREVIEW, which finishes with my story "Workshop," is available for purchase ($17) or download ($7.50). Sneak a peek at the new issue here: pacificREVIEW 2006-07. The Abiko Annual with James Joyce is available, with the story "The Copy Editor's Wake" and a ten-page interview with me on Finnegans Wake. Copies are $20. To order, send an international money order to Tatsuo Hamada at Hananoi 1787-28, Kashiwa-shi 277-0812, Japan (Don’t write Abiko Annual or ALP office in the receiver). Check out the table of contents: The Abiko Annual 2007 "The Quality of Air" will appear in Drumlummon Views sometime in mid-to-late 2009. This story is steeped in the landscape of Montana, out of which the journal is based. It will come out, and it will have been worth the wait! ↑ 2007 ↑ *"The Understory," my first published story, won the 2006 Raymond Carver Prize, judged by Bill Henderson. The sponsoring journal, Carve Magazine, is revamping right now, and the story will be archived here eventually. Here's a temporary copy: The Understory. Print it out double-sided! "The Understory" was republished in Issue 4 of Seventh Quark, a British journal. Learn more here: Seventh Quark. It was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize. The story "The Complicator" was also published in 7Q4 of Seventh Quark. Cranky Magazine has published the short-short "The Dropped Glove" in their Jan. '07 issue. A finalist in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest. "Circulation" won the 2006 prize of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, was a Glimmer Train contest finalist, and was praised by Conjunctions editor Bradford Morrow. Not yet published, this one will see the light of day eventually, I promise. "Running Lights," though unpublished, was a finalist in Glimmer Train's Short-story Contest for New Writers in Fall 2004. |
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