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Blogroll

• 'Sing Of Human Unsuccess' LARB 4/19
• 3:AM Magazine: Excerpt
• A Failed Visionary, A Demythifier, A Plagiarist
• A Lack of Elegy
• A New Philosophy of Shorts
• A Richer Victory
• Agents Of Misfortune
• AnOther magazine: anxiety, pain, loneliness and madness
• Antiepithalamia on Amazon
• Antiepithalamium 1
• Blues, Smoke and Mirrors
• Buzz: The 'Struggling Writer' Theme
• Daily Mail: Laugh Out Loud Literary Fiction
• Daily Telegraph: Best Novels of November
• Dangerous Minds Valentine's 2019
• Deep Sentiments about the State of the World
• Dinner with the Beardos
• Disappearing
• Disinterred View
• Dourness, Bleakness and Overtly Depressing Tones
• Down From The Mountain
• Dull Night at Zebulon (8/19)
• Educated Outsider
• Emptyscapes
• Everybody Wants Some
• Farcebook
• Financial Times: savage, furious, hilarious and melancholic
• Full Stop: Cyril Connolly Blew My Mind
• Gold Diggers 10/10/21
• Gone to the Dogs
• Guardian: 'a long, very repetitive monologue'
• Hand To Mouth
• Hate Poems Book Release 12/18
• Hate Poems on Amazon
• Heroin Heroism
• Inertia Variation XXI
• Inertia Variations on Amazon
• Instagram
• Interview with an Arch-Miserabilist and Beer-Cadger
• Interview: An Ode to Bohemia
• Irish Times: Inventive and Humorous
• It's About Time
• K-Bomb Publishing
• LA Review of Books: An Accommodation Between Futility and Necessity
• LA Review of Books: Journey to the End of Autofiction
• Land of Disenchantment
• LARB: La Luz 7/13
• Laughing at the Artwork
• Literary Hub: excerpt
• Literary Review: Nibbling at the Edge of the Literary Life
• Live on Radio Ragazza
• Magical Cynicism
• Magnanimous Misanthropy
• Maudlin House: undercutting the tired auto-fiction game
• Memory, Narrative, Liminality and Bloviation
• MILF as Muse
• Mountain Bar 2010
• My Proudest Moment
• New Zealand Herald: 'I disliked this book a great deal'
• NY Review of Books review
• NY Review of Books: Social Contract Hypocrisies Exposed
• Observer: A Discomfiting Farce of Male Midlife Desire
• On The Road, Again
• Paris Review Favorite Books of 2025: a discourse on the vagaries of writing
• Paul McCarthy's Caribbean Pirates
• Penny-Ante Editions
• Pleasures Of The Plague
• Poet of Procrastination
• Poets House
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.1
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.10
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.10
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.2
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.3
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.4
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.5
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.6
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.7
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.8
• Publication in the Age of Negation pt.9
• Punk's Inglorious Second Act
• Rain Taxi: Flight into Fiction (interview)
• Readings: Laughing and Squirming
• REGRET (animation)
• Requiem for a Fallen Racetrack
• Respect for Acting
• Rita House 9/1/22
• River of Demented Fun
• San Francisco 9/12
• Scroll down for fulsome praise
• Spectator Australia: Bookshop Blues
• Standard Hotel 8/10
• Standard Hotel, West Hollywood 11/11
• Stop Being Supportive
• Street Scenes
• Streets of Bakersfield
• Suicide by Kickstarter
• The Baffler: Against Selling Out
• The Battle of Forevermore
• The Death That Won't Die
• The Demand for Less
• The Goldberg Variations: A Minor Trilogy
• The Lydian Spin
• The Portlandization of Los Angeles
• The Truth about Minimalism
• The Undesirables at Manson Family blog
• The Undesirables in Entropy
• The V Generation at Vons
• Times Literary Supplement: Autofiction Satirized in a Superlative Work of Autofiction
• Tinnitus, Dead Horses and other Vital Issues of the Day
• To Hell and Back
• Trading Inertias
• Twitter: A Revolution of the Mind
• Victorian Choking Paintings
• Walker Paintings
• Washington Post: A strong entry in the canon of antisocial fiction
• Zona Motel: A Book About What It’s Like When It All Turns Out Bad
• Zona Motel: A Transaction with Reality