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Entries from July 2024

Interview in “Alternate Perceptions”

July 25th, 2024 · 2 Comments

Back in 2017, Brent Raynes interviewed me about John Keel, for the magazine Alternate Perceptions. You can read it here.

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My Rent Is Due!

July 19th, 2024 · 1 Comment

I’m happy to announce that my translation of Alphonse Allais’s My Rent Is Due! is now available from Black Scat Books. This collection, originally published in 1899, includes delightful stories about tapeworms, phantom limbs, floating brothels, and other interesting things. André Breton saluted Allais’s “terrorist activity of the mind”; maybe you will too.

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Uncopyrightable

July 2nd, 2024 · No Comments

This affecting tale of a young poet who loses the rights to his work appears in the latest issue of TYPO. Optional technical note for logophiles: “Uncopyrightable” is one of the longest heterograms in English, consisting of fifteen unrepeated letters. Each paragraph is 60 words, with a two-word anagram of the title in the middle. […]

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