I wrote the introduction for Amanda DeMarco’s sparkling translation of New Inventions and the Latest Innovations, by Gaston de Pawlowski, now available from Wakefield Press. Here’s what Wakefield has to say: Originally published in book form in 1916, Gaston de Pawlowski’s New Inventions and the Latest Innovations collects the humorist’s numerous columns mocking and deflating […]
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New Inventions and the Latest Innovations
August 7th, 2024 · No Comments
Nominata
July 29th, 2022 · 5 Comments
My novel Nominata is now available from Black Scat Books! You can get it on Amazon! I’ve been working on it for years: it’s not long, but it took me awhile to figure out what I wanted to do with it. Here’s the blurb from Black Scat Books: Nominata has gone missing, and her old […]
The Noble Apothecary
April 6th, 2022 · Comments Off on The Noble Apothecary
The upcoming issue of the Black Scat Review is devoted to “Lewd, Nude, and Rude.” I’m offering my translation of The Noble Apothecary, a 1664 novella by Jean Donneau de Visé. Donneau de Visé is remembered mostly for his polemics against Molière, but he also wrote plays, served as Louis XIV’s historian, and founded an […]
Notary Publics
March 16th, 2020 · 2 Comments
A song about notary publics. They seem to have a pretty good gig. It can be found on That Regrettable Weekend and in The Doug Skinner Songbook.
No Bile!
June 18th, 2018 · Comments Off on No Bile!
No Bile! is now available from Black Scat Books! This is my 8th translation of the peerless French proto-dadaist Alphonse Allais (1854-1905). This collection of what he called his “anthumous works” includes love stories, revenge stories, short-shorts, and unclassifiable prose, all affronting the reader with startlingly modern black humor, imagination, and wordplay. Among the highlights […]
Nature’s Way
November 8th, 2013 · 2 Comments
A reflective round, on the workings of nature.
Not Much to Brag About
March 21st, 2013 · Comments Off on Not Much to Brag About
Materialism and humanism are celebrated here. That’s what we have to work with, after all.
No Noel
December 19th, 2012 · Comments Off on No Noel
Nine Settings
November 1st, 2012 · Comments Off on Nine Settings
The “Nine Settings” are for voice and piano. The texts are by Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Tommaso Campanella, Le Comte de Saint-Germain, Christopher Smart, Guillaume Apollinaire, Francis Picabia, Jean-Pierre Brisset, and James Joyce. I wrote them back in 1983, and have occasionally revised them. They’re based on my occasional praxis of four-pitch diatonic chords, randomized […]
Nocebo
July 31st, 2012 · Comments Off on Nocebo
A nocebo is a placebo with harmful side effects. This one is a waltz for viola and piano.