Tom Whalen
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links "Run Lola Run." Film Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 3, Spring 2000). "History Lesson." Agni (2003). "Surviving Death." Barrelhouse (2005). "Prose Piece for Martha Stewart." Pindeldyboz (2005). The Spectral University: A Memoir of the Late Sixties. Obscure Publications, 2005. Sovereign Insignificance: Review of Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 by Robert Walser. Marginalia (Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 2006). Composition for Robert Walser Words Without Borders. "Bamboo." Cadillac Cicatrix No. 2 (Winter 2008). Marginalia: A Literary Review Russell H. Greenan Flatland the Film		Tom Whalen is "one of the first-rate experimental writers in the New South whose work cannot be missed." —Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1989
	New from Parsifal Press: An Exchange of Letters: Fictions	New from Caketrain Press: Dolls: Prose Poems
	Tom Whalen's books include Winter Coat (Red Dust, 1998), A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (with Daniel Quinn, Bantam Books, 1997), Roithamer's Universe (Portals Press, 1996), The Camel's Back (with Michael Presti, Portals Press, 1993), Elongated Figures (Red Dust, 1991), The Eustachia Stories (Velocities Press, 1986). Several chapbooks have appeared with Obscure Publications.
	Short stories anthologized in Sudden Fiction; That's What I Like About the South: New Southern Stories for the Nineties; Elvis in Oz; A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose; Mondo Marilyn; The Book of Eros; Brief Encounters; The Student Body; Alice Redux and elsewhere. Prose poems anthologized in The Great American Prose Poem: From Poe to the Present; The Anatomy of Water: A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry; The Best of the Prose Poem; The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry. Short stories published in AGNI, American Letters & Commentary, Chicago Review, Fiction International, Florida Review, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, The Idaho Review, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, North American Review, Natural Bridge, The Nebraska Review, Northwest Review, Ploughshares, The Quarterly, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Witness, and other journals. Criticism (on Lewis Carroll, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Conrad, Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, Wallace Stevens, Doris Lessing, Donald Barthelme, George Garrett, Stephen Becker, Russell H. Greenan, Buster Keaton, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Wim Wenders, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Tom Tykwer, John Carpenter), poetry, personal essays, and collaborative translations have appeared in Bookforum, Chelsea, Connecticut Review, Critique, Essays in Literature, Film Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Hollins Critic, Literature/Film Quarterly, New Orleans Review, The Missouri Review, The Paris Review, The Seattle Review, The Southern Review, Studies in Short Fiction, The Wallace Stevens Journal. Collaborative translations of stories by Robert Walser in Selected Stories (New York Review Books) and Masquerade and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press). Co-editor of the Robert Walser Number of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Recipient of The Texas Review Press Novella Prize (1996), The Missouri Review Editors' Prize in the Essay (1993), Louisiana Arts Fellowship in Literature (1985), Pro Helvetia Fellowships (1990, 1992). Recipient of the 2006 Caketrain Chapbook Competition for Dolls, judged by Denise Duhamel. Visiting Professor in American Film, Stuttgart University (2006-08), Visiting Professor in North American Studies, Freiburg University, Germany (2005-06), Visiting Professor in film and poetry, Salisbury State University (Spring 2000), Visiting Writer in Residence, Tulane University (Fall 1999), Visiting Professor in American literature and film, Stuttgart University, Germany (1993-94, 1995-97), Lecturer in Creative Writing, Loyola University (1990-92), Director of the Creative Writing Program, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (1977-99), Visiting Lecturer in English, McNeese State University (1973-76). "Whalen’s work is thickly lyrical and meditative, interrogating the relation of language to things, of books to life." —Review of Contemporary Fiction