New Story Forthcoming!

My untitled fifty-word text will appear in [  C.  ] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology from the mighty Mud Luscious Press, next year.

Thanks, Andrew Borgstrom and J.A. Tyler!

My untitled fifty-word text will appear in [  C.  ] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology from the mighty Mud Luscious Press, next year. Other participating writers include: James Tadd Adcox, Jesse Ball, Ken Baumann, Matt Bell, Kate Bernheimer, Michael Bible, Jack Boettcher, Harold Bowes, Donald Breckenridge, Melissa Broder, Blake Butler, James Chapman, Jimmy Chen, Joshua Cohen, Peter Conners, Andy Devine, Giancarlo DiTrapano, Claire Donato, Raymond Federman, Kathy Fish, Scott Garson, Molly Gaudry, Roxane Gay, Steven Gillis, Rachel B. Glaser, Amanda Goldblatt, Barry Graham, Amelia Gray, Sara Greenslit, Tina May Hall, Christopher Higgs, Lily Hoang, Tim Horvath, Joanna Howard, Laird Hunt, Jamie Iredell, Harold Jaffe, Stephanie Johnson, Shane Jones, Drew Kalbach, Roy Kesey, Michael Kimball, M. Kitchell, Robert Kloss, Darby Larson, Charles Lennox, Norman Lock, Robert Lopez, Sean Lovelace, Josh Maday, Dave Madden, Kendra Grant Malone, Peter Markus, Chelsea Martin, Zachary Mason, Hosho McCreesh, Alissa Nutting, Aimee Parkison, David Peak, Ted Pelton, Adam Peterson, Ryan Ridge, Joseph Riippi, Adam Robinson, Ethel Rohan, Joanna Ruocco, Kevin Sampsell, Selah Saterstrom, Davis Schneiderman, Zachary Schomburg, Todd Seabrook, Ben Segal, Gregory Sherl, Justin Sirois, Ken Sparling, Matthew Simmons, Terese Svoboda, Deb Olin Unferth, Timmy Waldron, William Walsh, Rupert Wondolowski and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé.

I’m Reading, Tonight!

I’ll be reading as part of “The Monkeybicycle Lightning Round!”
Friday, October 22, 2010, 7:00pm-9:30pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th St. New York, NY 10003

This new quarterly reading series fuses quick, high energy readings with a broad range of voices–both established and emerging–into a seamless hour of literary brilliance. Each event will feature 20 readers, each reading no longer than three minutes before introducing the next reader. No interruption from the host means a continuous listening experience. No guidelines other than length means maximum variety of form and content.

Featuring: Paula Bomer, Sarah Bridjins, Jason Brooks, Laura Carney, William Clifford, Nicole Elizabeth, Jim Freed, Greg Gerke, Eirik Gumeny, Chris Heavener, Krystal Languell, Michael Leong, John Madera, Peter Richter, Joe Sullivan, Robert Swartwood, Mike Topp, Timmy Waldron, Mike Wood, and John Woods.

A Reading I’m Psyched About

It’s a long way off, but I wanted to let you know about this event where I’ll be reading my fiction:

Conjunctions Celebrates the Fall Issue with a Free Reading at Book Court

Karen Russell, Paul La Farge, Stephen O’Connor, and John Madera Read from Their Stories in Conjunctions:55, Urban Arias, with Emcee Brian Evenson

Friday, December 3, 2o10, 7 p.m., 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, New York

More HERE.

New Review at the Review of Contemporary Fiction

Here’s an excerpt of my review of Peter Handke’s Don Juan: His Own Version, translated by Krishna Winston:

In Handke’s recasting of the legendary libertine’s adventures, we find the Don characterized by sadness, an “inconsolability” that is, ironically, the source of his invulnerability. The infamous lover tells his labyrinthal tales of deflowering to a failed businessman who’s now an innkeeper and chef. This amanuensis, an inveterate reader, was enthralled by Racine and Pascal before the Don seemingly somersaulted into his garden; and he later alludes to works by Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Georges Simenon, and Chrétien de Troyes. So this book—itself a kind of library—offers another kind of love, namely, bibliophilia.