Spermatagonia: The Isle of Man Grafik-novella, [Autonomedia, 2006]. Photos by NY photographer David Lombard & international photographer Foto Sifichi, excerpted in Fiction International: Madness 2. The fading line between dérive and sleep-walking. Autonomedia Catalog: "As everyone knows, psychogeography is the study of the effects of the geographic environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals. So when Kees Califlora, a corporate psychogeographer (paid to locate places where people are predisposed to certain marketable behaviors), begins to doubt the validity of his own identity and experience, he's too well-informed about the fictions of his own life to address it directly. The result is a dizzy unravelling, as Kees abandons friendships, interactions, and eventually even language."
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RADIO ACTIVITY KILLS: Finished spring 2017. Seeking agent / publisher. DJ Kees flees Amsterdam under mysterious circumstances with teen daughter, Alouette. A new life in Brooklyn leads to an obligatory hitch-hiking road trip that finds them stranded in Iowa, where they meet the flamboyant former Queen of Iowa, a dust devil of mixed emotions, Meridel. They eventually return to Greenpoint, Brooklyn where they face a series of hallucinatory, hilarious, and harrowing adventures in the DJ and post-hipster slumlord underworld – the scent is stylish dystopia. Suki appears out of nowhere as Kees’s conceptual artist-muse-guru-collaborator-lover. An artist-slumlord entraps them, turns them in and they end up in Immigration Court where Alouette represents herself – and her father, who fails to appear. She is deported on various DHS charges and ends up alone in Amsterdam because Kees has, in fact, vanished without a trace. No one knows a thing until … The story incorporates experiences as a DJ, as a hitchhiker, as a migrant, outsider, father, and as someone who has lived in NYC / Brooklyn, but also Paris and Amsterdam. It also covers stories about my father and mother who survived WW2 as teens and includes historical backdrops that covers the Dutch Resistance and use of radio during WWII as well as the 1980s Amsterdam housing crisis and rise of the squatter movement – plus the use of radio during various riots and demonstrations.
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Menial Work & Surviving in Paris: From Unfinished novel Paris Sex Tête, a novel of amorous dérives, architecture, hangovers, displacement, aimless wandering and trouble in Paris, early 1990s.. Meeting the various foreign women of the ladies clubs & organizations of Paris was quite a trip: You could absorb the frustration, the idleness, their desire to distinguish themselves from the pack, wore sexy outfits with tasteful silk scarves & then talked about me in my presence as if they were bidding on a gigolo. About menial work & surviving on the edge. Excerpt published in Work Literary Magazine [Paris], The Kingdom Of Busby Berkley, Work Magazine [NYC] & in the anthology Gargoyle 70. Also in Parisiana [ed. Einar Moos (RIP)], Scarlet Letters and 3 AM Magazine, Paramour 1994/6 and Batteries Not Included, "Paris Sex Tête: An Excerpt” is a chapter about almost meeting Barney Rossett while I lived and worked as a writer & bill poster for Paris Passion. It appears in the Evergreen Review.
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Big Ideas Go Haywire: The Sex Chapters in 1980 issue of punk zine-tabloid EAST VILLAGE EYE. A year before John Lennon was shot on Dec. 8, 1980, I wrote this novel about youth derailed, about a fan who eventually tries to shoot his idol, Jane Leen, Patti-Smith-like pop-punk singer. It was scheduled to be serialized in Leonard Abrams ground-breaking EAST VILLAGE EYE but we only made it to 3 excerpts...
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Ocean GroOve: novel set in small NJ resort town, Ocean Grove, offers a Lolita-in-Peyton-Place view of the town. Krista, going on 17, is plotting her escape from oppressive, normal life in a small Jersey Shore town. She befriends Miles, the stranger in town. He becomes her ticket out – liberator, mentor, lover and when this fails, she, likely enters into a suicide pact with her ex, Tom T. McVain, an “ex-Army vet” of no verifiable war, who parlays his “war injuries” in lieu of personality – and she ends up in a coma. Tragic last ditch effort to make Miles jealous? Botched double suicide? Murder-suicide attempt? But prior to that the time was imbued with an enchanted sense of temporary joy ... Excerpted in Vancouver's Jack in 2002. Another excerpt published by Thin Ice Press.
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The Man Who Thought He Was The Man Who Loved Women: An unfinished NY novel of misshapen desire. Excerpt “Big Nouns, Unconjugated Verbs” appeared in Beet and in The Best American Erotica 1994. “The 63-Minute Egg” appeared in Beet. “Keypuss1: Anita Ekberg” appeared in Paramour in 1996. “Nina Hagen’s Meat Couture” appeared in 1998 in Fringecore. “Slim Inside Brancusi’s Kiss” was published in 1995 in Paramour. “Fellow-De-Se” and “The Man Who Thought” were published in Pink Pages.
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Another Boy With Green Hair: A boy with green hair hitchhikes cross-country and encounters many strange sides of the human soul. Never completed. Maybe I will get back to this one day. Unfinished, never published.
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