Once I tried to sneak into an R-rated movie. Ironically it was Mel Gibson’s Passion of The Christ. But it turned out it was playing in another wing of the theater. The ushers didn’t care, and I could have snuck into Eurotrip instead, but I decided to flee the theater in my shame. I ended up getting stuck in an emergency stairwell for two hours because I was afraid to go through a door marked as alarmed. It turned out the door (which was not alarmed) opened into the lobby of the neighboring Marriot, and I staggered out into the night. It was then I realized I would have to be good because I had no aptitude for badness. In later years this would bring me crawling to the church.
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Navajo Joe — Of course, I hope to sell my short stories and actually make money; but I’m sitting on enough, I can afford to give this one away. It’s old but, I think, a good one.
Huck Finn: The Lost Chapter — Lawks, this dates to high school. The assignment was to satirize something in the spirit of Huck Finn; aping the style was my call. I chose to satirize satire.
Sanditon: Or The Brothers — My abortive attempt to finish Jane Austen’s Sanditon.
Against Proserpina — My response to Swinburne’s ‘Hymn to Proserpina.’
The Steel Reserve Song — An ode to Steel Reserve High Gravity lager. Contact me for the tablature. Yes Mom, I know you’re reading this. (Co-written with Gabe Jouard.)
Anxiety in Shakespearean Tragedy — Dates to the Cambrian period of my junior year of college; but explains, I think, a lot about my novel Taroko Gorge.
From Northanger Abbey to Mansfield Park — I’m taking Jane Austen back for the menfolk. All you women have done for the past two hundred years was moon over the size of Mr. Darcy’s cravat.
The Dr. Sexx Columns — The sex column (or rather the satirical, life-hating, anti-sex column) I wrote for my college newspaper. [College Name] excised because I loathed my college and don’t want them to get accidental publicity from anything I do.
Reading & Booksigning w/ Jacob Ritari (double bill w/ Deborah Schupack)
Wednesday, August 4 at 7pm
Newtonville Books
296 Walnut Street
Newton, MA
www.newtonvillebooks.com
To schedule an event, please contact Rich Rennicks at rich@unbridledbooks.com or 888-732-3822 ext. 108.
