July 2011
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Here's a weird thing to find the day after...
Similar small underground labyrinths have been found across Europe, from Hungary to Spain, but no one knows why they were built. At least 700 of these chambers have been found in Bavaria alone, along with about 500 in Austria. In the local vernacular, they have fanciful names such as “Schrazelloch” (“goblin hole”) or “Alraunenhöhle” (“mandrake...
Here's the latest chapter of my California... →
Sunset magazine and genocide in a single web article.
The first real review: 'Populist Fatalism - The...
Caleb Cage, editor of The Nevada Review, has written the first full review of Dignity, for The Rumpus.
Very pleased with this. Cage got right into the guts of the thing: the invented religious rituals, the intentional collapse of the state that brings on the crisis, and the weird housing stock that westerners have accepted as part of the damaged-yet-grand landscape. And he treats the book as a...
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'Freegans On the Run'
I did not know (until just now) that Rebecca Schoenkopf’s review/feature about Dignity was in Las Vegas CityLife last week.
And for those who asked, my annual camping/hiking trip to Tuolumne Meadows was nothing like this.
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Imperial outposts, architecture schools, death...
This new novel I’m writing takes place, sort of, in the old Spanish missions of Southern California. For research purposes, I went to three missions and one sub-mission, all by train and trolley.
And because I’m now doing this “re-imagining spaces” column for FourStory.org, I wrote about the missions going from Imperial conversion churches/fortresses to stop the Russian/British territorial ...
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Case #117: Recurring dream of a place (Prague)...
Many Czech emigres in Toronto say they had the same recurring dream in the 1980s as this Canadian writer, Paul Wilson. He describes walking the dark winding streets of Prague and meeting his old friends there, but always in fear of being found by the police.
He describes the semi-nightmares as intense, “hyper-realistic” nocturnal voyages through Prague, with a “powerful erotic...