Books I Read in 2024: Shine Shine Shine

I reread Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer. Full disclosure: Lydia is my dear friend. Other full disclosure: This book is an absolute marvel. I love everything about this book: its lyrical prose, its daring and fearless tackling of Big Things (Life, Death, Reproduction), its insistence on what could be called optimism in the face of the chaos that is the universe. Sunny is bald! Maxon is going to the Moon! Bubber is hitting his head! And let’s not forget about the baby that’s coming or the double-life of Les Weathers. I highly, highly recommend.

Books I Read in 2024: Victory Parade, I Hate Men, My Friend Dahmer, The Crying of Lot 49, Machines in the Head, Big Magic, The Valley, End of Active Service, An Honest Woman, The Money Shot, Atomic Habits, Finding Your Own North Star, Crazy Cock, Sigrid Rides, Your Money Or Your Life, The Big Sleep, Eventually Everything Connects, Smutcutter, Shine Shine Shine, A Serial Killer’s Daughter, Confessions of a Serial Killer

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Sex & Society

My friend @valeriebaber interviewed me for her Sex & Society podcast. We talked #Playboy, empowerment, and porn. Link in bio 👂🏼

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My friend Valerie Baber interviewed me for her “Sex & Society” podcast. We talked about Playboy, empowerment, and porn. You can listen to the first episode here.

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The Zombie Hunter

Delighted and cool to get my contributor's copy of Clackamas Literary Review! Includes my short story: The Urologist.

"Delighted and cool to get my contributor's copy of Clackamas Literary Review! Includes my short story: The Urologist."

The other day I got my contributor's copies of the latest issue of Clackamas Literary Review, which features a new short story I wrote, "The Urologist." Thanks, Trevor Dodge! You can buy a copy of it on Amazon here. I was delightful to be featured along pals of mine: Lydia Netzer, who wrote the widely-acclaimed Shine Shine Shine and contributed a wonderfully weird short story called "Suicide Doors," which is about a woman who tries to write erotic fiction and keeps getting distracted by life, and Kevin Sampsell, who wrote A Common Pornography, published my very own You're a Bad Man, Aren't You?, and contributed a series of fantastical collages. In any case, I hope you'll pick up a copy. Here's an excerpt from my story:

"Sometimes, at dinner parties, someone would ask her why she had married the husband, and she would say, 'If there is ever a zombie apocalypse, my husband will hunt other humans for us to eat.' Invariably, the person would laugh, thinking she was joking, and she would laugh, too, playing along. She wasn't kidding. The husband was a killer."

Buy THE TUMOR! "This is one of the weirdest, smartest, most disturbing things you will read this year."