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Curriculum Vitae

 

   DATE OF BIRTH (10/28/48)

   EDUCATION
M.A. Writing, Hollins College (Virginia), 1971
B.A. English, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), 1970
University of California (Berkeley), Summer, 1981
Tulane University (New Orleans), Summer, 1974

   TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Stuttgart (Germany), Visiting Professor in American Film 2006-07.
University of Freiburg (Germany), Visiting Professor in North American Studies, 2005-06.
Salisbury State University (Maryland), Visiting Professor in Film and Poetry, Spring 2000.
Tulane University, Visiting Writer in Residence, Fall 1999.
University of Stuttgart (Germany), Visiting Professor in American Literature and Film, 1993-94; 1995-97.
Loyola University (New Orleans), Lecturer in Creative Writing, 1990-92.
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Founder and Director of Creative Writing Program, 1977-99.
McNeese State University, Visiting Lecturer in Department of Languages, 1973-76.
St. Maria Goretti High School, teacher of English and Creative Writing, 1971-72.

   RELATED WORK
Universities of Braunschweig, Freiburg, and Stuttgart, Lectures given on Melville and Nabokov, 2001 - 2004.
Stuttgart Seminar in Cultural Studies, Faculty, Summer 1992.
Kansas City Middle School of the Arts, Consultant for the Creative Writing Department, August, 1987.
Country Day School (New Orleans), Consultant for the Summer Arts Program, Summer, 1983.
Interlochen Arts Academy (Michigan), Guest artist in the Creative Writing Department, October, 1983.
Poets-in-the-Schools Program of New Orleans, co-consultant, 1980-86.
Tulane University, counselor for Tulane Teenage Day Program, Summer, 1969.

   HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
Caketrain Chapbook Competition, 2006.
Texas Review Press Novella Award, 1996.
The Missouri Review Editor's Prize (Essay), 1993.
Sabbatical Leave for Independent Work, 1986-87; 1993-94.
Distinguished Teacher, Presidential Scholars Commission, 1984, 1994.
Pro Helvetia (Switzerland) Research Grants Summer 1988 and Summer 1990.
Louisiana Artist Fellowship in Literature, 1985.
New Orleans Public Schools Teacher of the Year, 1984.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, SUNY-Buffalo, Summer 1984.
Outstanding Arts Teacher, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1984.
McNeese State University Research Grant, 1976.
Hollins College Fellowship, 1970-71.


A Tom Whalen Bibliography (selected)

BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS

   I. NOVELS
The Camel's Back
. With Michael Presti. New Orleans and Tuscaloosa: Portals Press, 1993.
Roithamer's Universe
. New Orleans: Portals Press, 1996.
A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife: On the Other Side Known Commonly As "The Little Book."
With Daniel Quinn. New York: Bantam Books, 1997.
The President in Her Towers. Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada: Parsifal Press (forthcoming 2008).

   II. SHORT FICTION
The Eustachia Stories: An Astroromance
. Illustrations by Linda Francis. California: Velocities. 1985.
Elongated Figures
. New York: Red Dust, 1991.
The Baby
. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2001.
Report from the Dump
. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2001.
The Internecine Wars: from THE PRESIDENT IN HER TOWERS
: Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2001.
Concerning the Vampire
. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2001.
Twenty-Six Novels
. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2001.
The Cosmic Messenger: from TALES FROM THE HYBRID POOL.
Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2002.
Memoirs from a Mousehole: from THE STRAW THAT BROKE.
Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2002.
Quantum Surge in O Central
. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2003.
An Exchange of Letters. Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada: Parsifal Press, 2007.

   III. POETRY
The Spare Key. Seventeen Poems
. Nacogdoches, Texas: The Seven Deadly Sins Press, 1977.
The Lonely Person's Garden. Prose Poetry. Nacogdoches, Texas: The Seven Deadly Sins Press, 1980.
Winter Coat
. New York: Red Dust, 1998.
The Wrong Mistake. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2001.
Strange Alleys: Prose Poems
. Illustrations by Nick Wadley. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2004.IV.
Green Man and the Priests. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2007.
Dolls: Prose Poems
. Pittsburgh, PA: Caketrain Press, 2007.

   IV. MEMOIR
The Spectral University: A Memoir of the Late Sixties
. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2005.
 

   V. CRITICISM
"What an Edifice of Artifice!": Russell H. Greenan's It Happened in Boston?. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2008.

It's What We Do Best: Essays on War Films by Godard, Malick, and Carpenter. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2009.

ANTHOLOGIZED WORK

   I. SHORT FICTION
"And the Earth on Its Frozen Journey." Three Novellas
by Richard Plant, John S. Walker, and Tom Whalen. Texas Review Press, 1997, 1-35.
"The Baby." Chouteau Review: Ten Year Anniversary Issue
. David Perkins, ed. Kansas City, Missouri, 1985, 63-71.
"The Children's Hour." Fiction 1986: A New Anthology of Innovative Writing
. Guy Daniels and Leslie Woolf Headley, eds. California and New York: Exile Press, 1986, 53-55.
"Chozen at Four A.M." INTRO 4
. Walton Beacham and R.V. Cassill, eds. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972, 40-44.
"Concerning the Vampire." Angel Body and Other Magic for the Soul
. Chris Reed and David Memmott, eds. Sheffield, UK: Back Brain Recluse, 2002, 128-133.
"The Consummate Miseries." Co-Lingua (15+ Years of NRG)
. Portland, 1991, 24-25.
"The Glass Monkeys." The Aspect Anthology: A Ten Year Retrospective
. Ed Hogan, ed. Somerville, Massachusetts: Zephyr Press, 1981, 203-4.
"In the Restrooms of Europe." The Book of Eros: Arts and Letters from Yellow Silk
. Lily Pond and Richard Russo, eds. New York: Harmony Books, 1995, 146-48. Also in: Brief Encounters: Stories of Love, Sex & Travel. Michelle de Kretser, ed. Melbourne, Oakland, London, Paris: Lonely Planet Publications, 1998, 47-52.
"Lake Sketch for Little Girls." Alice Redux
, ed. Richard Peabody (Arlington, Va.: Paycock Press, 2006), 317-19.
"Like the Light, Inwardly Tilting Toward Desire." Alpha Gallery: Selections from the Fantastic Small Press
. Joy Oestreicher, ed. California, 1990, 96-7.
"Marilyn Sightings." Mondo Marilyn
. Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole, eds. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 107-13.
"The Missing Part." A Good Man. Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose
. Irv Broughton, ed. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993, 52-54.
"Notes From the Tower." Elvis in Oz. New Stories & Poems from the Hollins Creative Writing Program
. Mary Flinn and George Garrett, eds. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1992, 50-57.
"Professors." The Student Body: Short Stories about College Students and Professors
. JohnMcNally, ed. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001, 141-144.
"She Came, Then, To This Sea." That's What I Like (About the South). And Other New Southern Stories for the Nineties
. George Garrett and Paul Ruffin, eds. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1993, 372-78.
"The Visitation." Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories
. Robert Shaparo and James Thomas, eds. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1986, 141-43.
"White Trash." The American South from Different Perspectives
. Angelika Hoff, ed. Freising, Germany: Stark Verlag, 2003, 61-72.

   II. POETRY AND PROSE POEMS
"God: A Biographical Note." The UMBRAL Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry
. Steve Rasnic Tem, ed. Denver: Umbral Press, 1982, 192.
Also in: The Anatomy of Water: A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry
. Steve Wilson, ed. Decatur: Linwood Publishers, 1992, 77; and
The Smile at the Foot of Ladder
. eds. Greg Boyd and Paul Rosheim, Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2004, 33.
"The Larger Bodies." Rhysling Anthology 1989
, Science Fiction Poetry Association, 1989, unpaginated. [Rhysling nominees for the Best Fantastic Poetry of 1988]
"On Robert Walser's Birthday." From a Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets
. Kalamu ya Salaam, ed. New Orleans: Runagate Press, 1998, 209.
"The Overcoat." The Anatomy of Water: A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry
. Steve Wilson, ed. Decatur: Linwood Publishers, 1992, 78.
"Self-Service Wäscherei." The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry
. Mark Vinz and C.W. Truesdale, eds. Minneapolis, Minn.: New Rivers Press, 1996, 306-07.
"Success." Unscheduled Departures: The Asylum Anthology of Short Fiction
. Greg Boyd, ed. Santa Maria, California: Asylum Arts, 1991, 104.
"Kleine Wanderung." The Maple Leaf Rag. 15th Anniversary Anthology
. New Orleans: Portals Press, 1994, 182-83.
"Baseball" and "The Next Morning." The Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal
, Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2000, 229-230.
"Why I Hate the Prose Poem." Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present
. David Lehman, ed. New York: Scribner, 2003, 205.
"A Man Opens the Drawer of a Dresser," "The Origins of Communism," "Fog," "All This," The Doll Performs Surgery," "The Doll Writes to Her Mother (I-II)," "Obsession," "The Origin of Dolls (I-II)," "Four Visitations." The Smile at the Foot of Ladder
. Greg Boyd and Paul Rosheim, eds. Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2004, 34 - 42.
"Why I Hate the Prose Poem." An Introduction to the Prose Poem. Brian Clements, ed. Firewheel Editions, 2007.
"Why I Hate the Prose Poem." 100 Contemporary Prose Poems. Brian Clements, ed. Shanghai Educational Press, 2007.
"Frankenstein." The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptaion. James M. Welch and Peter Lev, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007, iv.

CRITICISM, ESSAYS, BIBLIOGRAPHIC WORK, EDITORIAL WORK, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS

   I. CRITICISM
"Wonderful Elegance: Barthelme's 'The Party'". Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction
Vol.XVI, No.3 (1975), 44-48.
"The Reader Becomes Text: Methods of Experimentation in George Garrett's The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James
." The Texas Review Vol.IV, No.1&2 (1983), 14-21.
"The White Knight's Farewell: A Note on Carroll and Alice." Lyra
Vol.1, No.2 (1987), 4-7.
"'The Most Enchanting Oblivion:' Robert Walser's Self-Effacement." The Metaphysical Review
No. 11/12/13 (November 1987), 36-40.
"'The Most Enchanting Oblivion:' Robert Walser's Self-Effacement." Crazyquilt
Vol.2, No.1 (1988), 5-11. [see also above]
"'When You Think You've Got There, You Haven't:' Wim Wenders' Alice in the Cities
." New Orleans Review Vol.15, No.2 (1988), 80-83.
"Kafka's Progeny." Crazyquilt
Vol.4, No.2 (1989), 79-85.
"Existence is Elsewhere: Robert Walser's 'Spezialplatte.'" Satchel
No.1 (1989), 69-76.
"Eavesdropping in the Dark: The Opening(s) of George Garrett's Entered from the Sun
." To Come Up Grinning: A Tribute to George Garrett. Paul Ruffin and Stuart Wright, eds. Huntsville, Texas: The Texas Review Press, 1989, 90-99.
"Between Heaven and Earth: Robert Walser's 'Die Hochzeitsreise.'" Studies in Short Fiction
Vol.27, No.2 (1990), 191-196.
"The Masks of Robert Walser." Essays in Literature
Vol.18, No.2 (1991), 288-293.
Introduction to The Review of Contemporary Fiction Robert Walser Number (Spring 1992), with Susan Bernofsky, 7-15.
"Ignorance, Analogy, Motion: Robert Walser's 'Boat Trip.'" The Review of Contemporary Fiction Robert Walser Number
(Spring 1992), 122-127.
"Existence is Elsewhere: Robert Walser's 'Spezialplatte.'" The Arkansas Quarterly
Vol.1, No.2 (1992), 133-139. [see also above]
"The Poetry of Negation: Godard's Les Carabiniers
." New Orleans Review Vol.19, No.1 (1992), 62-66.
"Return to Spoon River." Truly Did My Camera Record Their Faces. Spoon River Anthology and Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Collection of John P. Schaefer
. The University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography, 1993, 7-12.
"Film Noir: Killer Style." Literature/Film Quarterly
Vol. 23, No. 1 (1995), 2-5.
"Romancing Film: Coppola's Dracula
." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 23, No. 2 (1995), 99-101.
"Ignorance, Analogy, Motion: Robert Walser's 'Boat Trip'." Short Story Criticism
Vol. 20 (1995), 363-366. [see also above]
"'Alone in an Immense Valley': A Note on Stevens' 'Valley Candle'." The Wallace Stevens Journal
Vol. 20 No. 2 (Fall 1996), 229-234.
"The Balloon of Equilibrium: Symmetry, Structures, and Narrative Authority in Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith
." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 25, No. 1 (1997), 55-61.
"'We are none of us much': Stephen Becker's When the War Is Over." Krieg und Literatur/War and Literature
Vol. II (1996), 61-67.
"Eavesdropping in the Dark: The Opening(s) of George Garrett's Entered from the Sun
." George Garrett: The Elizabethan Trilogy. Eds. Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin. Hunstville, Texas: Texas Review Press, 1998, 148 - 159. [see also above]
"Jakob von Gunten." The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film
. Eds. John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh. Facts on File, 199-200.
"'Maybe All Men Got One Big Soul': The Hoax Within the Metaphysics of Terrence `Malick's The Thin Red Line." Literature/Film Quarterly
Vol. 27 No. 3 (1999), 162 -166.
"Run Lola Run." Film Quarterly
Vol. 53, No. 3, Spring 2000, 33-40.
"Robert Walser and the Act of Writing." Gedankenspaziergänge mit Robert Walser
. Ed. Arthur C. Noble. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002, 135-46.
"Existence Is Elsewhere: Robert Walser's 'Spezialplatte'." Gedankenspaziergänge mit Robert Walser
. Ed. Arthur C. Noble. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002, 299-304. [see also above]
"'This Is About One Thing—Dominion': John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars." Literature/Film Quarterly
Vol. 30, No. 4 (2002), 304-07.
"Beneficent Irrelevancies: Robert Walser and The Robber
." The Hollins Critic Vol. XL, No. 1 (February, 2003), 1-16.
"The Passion of Mel Gibson." Literature/Film Quarterly
Vol. 32 No. 3 (2004), 240-43.
"Written on a Whim." On Robert Walser. Bookforum
Vol. 12, Issue 5 (Feb/Mar 2006), 10-11.
"Joseph Conrad: 'An Outpost of Progress.'" The Many Voices of English: An Anthology of Post-Colonial Short Stories/Teacher's Book. Angelika Hoff, ed. Braunschweig: Diesterweg, 2006, 5-18.
"Doris Lessing: 'The Second Hut.'" The Many Voices of  English: An Anthology of Post-Colonial Short Stories/Teacher's Book. Angelika Hoff, ed. Braunschweig: Diesterweg, 2006, 41-49.
"Chinua Achebe: 'Dead Men's Path.'"The Many Voices of English: An Anthology of Post-Colonial Short Stories/Teacher's Book. Angelika Hoff, ed. Braunschweig: Diesterweg, 2006, 50-57.
"Ngugi wa Thiong'o: 'A Meeting in the Dark.'" The Many Voices of English: An Anthology of Post-Colonial Short Stories/Teacher's Book. Angelika Hoff, ed. Braunschweig: Diesterweg, 2006, 65-76.
"Salman Rushdie: 'Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies.'" The Many Voices of English:  An Anthology of Post-Colonial Short Stories/Teacher's Book. Angelika Hoff, ed. Braunschweig: Diesterweg, 2006, 85-93.
 
"The Consequences of Passivity: Re-evaluating Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 35, No. 3 (2007).
"Sovereign Insignificance." (longer version of review/essay on Speaking to the Rose by Robert Walser in Bookforum, above). Marginalia Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 2006), 137-46.
"The Mechanical Universe of Russell H. Greenan's Nightmare." Interstice.

   II. ESSAYS AND MEMOIR
Introduction to Brimstone
(1972), 5. [Literary Magazine of Goretti High School, Lake Arthur, Louisiana.]
"Readings, Journals Available to Writers." Arts/Report
October-December (1980), 7.
"Fascist Aesthetics." Arts Quarterly
Vol.IV, No.4 (1982), 28.
Liner notes for jazz album Syndrome
by Ellis Marsalis, 1984.
"The Spectral University." The Missouri Review
Vol.XVI, No.1 (1993), 143-156.
"Michael Jordan, Volcanoes, and Lingerie." The Flint Hills Review
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1996), 17.
"A Preface." Kestrel
No. 8 (1996), 68.
"Staubmäuse und Leseratten," [German trans. of "Dust Mice and Bookworms: Ten Takes on German-American Cultural Relations] trans. Julia Haverkamp. Zeitschrift für Kultur Austausch
Vol. 48 No. 2 (1998), 55-57.
"A Preface to Robert Walser." Kestrel
No. 13, 20-21.
"Reading Mirror Wars." Mirror Wars
by Nancy Harris. New Orleans: Portals Press, 1999, 9.
"A Note on Michel Varisco's Cotton Mill Series." New Orleans Review
Vol. 27, No. 1 (2001), 96.
"White Trash." Under the Sun
Vol. VI, No. 1 (2001), 127-140.
"I Sit Down Beside My Father." Bayou
38 (2002), 22-25.
"The Woman Who Played the Part of Light: A Reading for Anna Wooten-Hawkins (1948-2000)." Pembroke Magazine
35 (2003), 94.
"Henry James." Northwest Review
Vol. 41, No. 2 (2003), 124-25.
"My Way to School." Under the Sun
Vol. VIII, No. 1 (2003), 207-12.
"My Brother Circles the Bases." The Redwood Coast Review
Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer 2004), 1,3.
"The Secret Life of Parents, 1962." Brevity
(Fall 2004, www.brevitymag.com).
"Why I Became a Vegetarian." Ginger Hill
Vol. 42 (2005), 41-42.
"Southern Childhood." Ballyhoo Stories
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2005), 44-51.
"The Beating." Red Mountain Review Vol. 2 (2006), 25-29.
"The Boy in the Street." Under the Sun Vol XII, No. 1 (2007), 19-25.
"Bamboo." Cadillac Cicatrix No. 2 (Winter 2008), 86-87.
"Mother, Broken." South Loop Reivew (forthcoming).

   III. BIBLIOGRAPHIC WORK
A Robert Walser Bibliography. The Review of Contemporary Fiction Robert Walser Number
(Spring 1992), 128-132.
Bibliographie für den englischen Sprachraum [Robert Walser]. With Tamara S. Evans and Susan Bernofsky. Wärmende Fremde: Robert Walser und seine Übersetzer im Gespräch
. Ed. Peter Utz. Bern, Peter Lang, 1994, 186-190.

   IV. EDITORIAL WORK
Editor of Lowlands Review
Nos. 1 to 10, 1975-1981.
Guest Editor with Susan Bernofsky of The Review of Contemporary Fiction Robert Walser Number
(Spring 1992).
Editor of Stuttgart Review
Vol. 1, 1997.

   V. BOOK REVIEWS
Pataxanadu
by Christopher Middleton. Arcade Vol.LXXIX, No.6 (October 6, 1978), 17.
Wolfhead
by Charles L. Harness. Sho-Time October 1978, 17.
Pataxanadu
by Christopher Middleton. The Hollins Critic Vol.XVI, No.2 (April 1979), 18-19. [see also above]
Winter Night
by Georg Trakl, trans. David J. Black. Baltic Avenue Poetry Journal No.2 (Spring 1980), 25.
Wolfhead
by Charles L. Harness. SF Commentary No.62/63/64/65/66 (June 1981; Australia), 67. [see also above]
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
by Philip K. Dick. American Book Review Vol.5, No.6 (1983), 21.
Djinn
by Alain Robbe-Grillet, trans. Yvone Lenard and Walter Wells. The San Francisco Review of Books Vol.VII, No.5 (1983), 31.
The Blue-Eyed Shan
by Stephen Becker. The San Francisco Review of Books Vol.VII, No.5 (1983), 31-32.
Landscapes after the Battle
by Juan Goytisolo, trans. Helen Lane. The Review of Contemporary Fiction Claude Ollier/Carlos Fuentes Number (Summer 1988), 318.
Worst Canadian Stories
, Crad Kilodney, ed. (2 vol.). The Review of Contemporary Fiction Claude Ollier/Carlos Fuentes Number (Summer 1988), 325.
My Territory
by Mark Insingel, trans. Adrienne Dixon. The Review of Contemporary Fiction Claude Ollier/Carlos Fuentes Number (Summer 1988), 329-30.
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie. The Times-Picayune February 12, 1989.
Odile
by Raymond Queneau, trans. Carol Sanders. The Times-Picayune February 26, 1989.
Three Hunters
by William Harrison. The Times-Picayune July 2, 1989.
The Craft of Translation
. John Biguenet and Rainer Schulte, eds. The Times-Picayune September 17, 1989.
Chromos
by Felipe Alfau. The Washington Post Book World Vol.XX, No.16 (April 22, 1990), 10.
Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks
by Greg Bottoms. The Washington Post (Sept. 27, 2001), C3.
Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainmen
t. "Bordwell's Chinese Feast." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 29, No. 3 (2001), 248.
American Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era
. "High Heat in the Cold War." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 29, No. 4 (2001), 324.
Double Vision
by George Garrett. The Texas Review Vol. XXV, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2004, 136 - 139.

   VI. INTERVIEWS
"An Interview with Jorge Luis Borges," with John Biguenet. New Orleans Review
Vol.9, No.2 (1982), 5-14. Also in: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations ed. Richard Burgin. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, 199-212.
"Solo Seré Borges," [Span. trans. of "Interview with Jorge Luis Borges"] trans. Philip Metzidakis. Escandalar
Vol.6, Nos.3-4, Vol.7, No.1 (Julio 1983-Marzo 1984), 82-89.
"Robert Walser's Mikrogramme: Striking Sparks From the Ashes of Language. An Interview with Bernhard Echte and Werner Morlang," with Susan Bernofsky. New Orleans Review
Vol.16, No.3 (1989), 15-23.

   VII. INTERVIEWS GIVEN
Interviewed by:
Manuela Lenochova. trans. from the English into Romanian. Litere, Arte, Idei
No.30, (9 August, 1993 Romania), 8.

SHORT STORIES

   1972
"Chozen at Four A.M." INTRO 4
. Walton Beacham and R.V. Cassill, eds. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972, 40-44.
"The Ride." The Michigan Quarterly Review
Vol.11, No.3, 161-62.
   1975
"Claire & Albert." Center
No.7, 11-13.
"Questions by the Sea." Amanuensis
Vol.3, No.1, 12-15.
   1976
"The Situation." The Fault
No.10.
   1977
"The Glass Monkeys." Aspect No.69, 3-4.
"My Troubles." Laughing Bear No.2/3, 39.
"Theriomorphic Spirit Symbolism, from 'The Baby.'" Uroboros
Vol.II, No.2, 14-15.
"What They Asked." riverSedge
Vol.1, No.4, 36-39.
   1978
"The Baby." Chouteau Review Vol.2, No.2, 11-21.
"Body Problems." Interstate Vol.III, Nos.2/3, 113-14.
"Deeper in Space." NRG
No.6, 8.
"From a Casebook on the Dead." The Nantucket Review
No.12, 8-12.
"How to Get There Once it's Over." Iron No.21 (U.K.), 15-16; Panache No.20, 52-56.
"The Mutants." Modus Operandi
Vol.9, No.1, 19-20.
"The New Policemen." Lunch No.11, 34-39.
   1979
"An Exchange of Letters." Periodics
No.6, 66-68.
"A Little War." The Nantucket Review No.13, 50-55.
"Problems in Space." Telephone
No.15, 120-21.
"The Purple Room." Ludd's Mill Nos.16/17 (U.K.), 14-15.
"The Quiet Sun & Other Interstellar Matters." Spook
No.2 (U.K.).
"Two Post Mortem Adventures." Wayne Literary Review, 26-27.
"The Visitation." Mississippi Review Vol.8, Nos.1/2 (Iss.22/23), 178-81.
   1980
"Chozen at Three A.M." The New Laurel Review Vol.X, No.2, 7-10.
"The Complex." Urbane Gorilla
No.12 (U.K.), 43-47.
"The Deluge." Occident
Vol.C, No.1, 23-24.
"Epistemology." Occident Vol.C, No.1, 22-23.
"Fenster's Monologue." Occident
Vol.C, No.1, 24-25.
"Guardian Angels." Sarcophagus
July.
"How the Dead Manifest Themselves on Earth." Washington Review
Vol.5, No.6, 20-21.
"In the Cross-Hatched Regions." Sonora Review No.1, 23-26.
"In the Night a Train Passed and It Was Fall." Not Guilty! Nos.5/6, 89-90.
"The New Knowledge." Eureka Review Nos.4/5, 169-72.
   1981
"The Complex." Writing
No.2 (Canada), 37-38. [see also above]
"Girl with Blue Hair #15." The Nantucket Review
No.18, 32-33.
"In the Clearing." Artful Dodge Vol.3, No.1, 46-49.
"The Symphony." Benzene
Vol.1, No.2, 25.
"The Little Ones." Chicago Review
Vol.33, No.1, 42-43.
   1982
"Buffaloes." Telescope
No.III, 24-27.
"The Consummate Miseries." NRG
No.18.
"The Corner." New Orleans Review
Vol.9, No.1, 78-79.
"Frames from the Synaptic Cinema." NRG No.18.
"The Simulacra." Pendragon
Vol.1, No.3, 7.
"Unstable Orbits." The Kindred Spirit
No.2, 7.
"With Eustachia in Cancer." Telescope No.III, 20-23.
"Words Passing Endlessly into Light." NRG No.18.
   1983
"Encounters With a Schwarzchild." Piedmont Literary Review Vol.VIII, No.4, 21-22.
"My Only Homerun." Ploughshares
Vol.9, Nos.2/3, 89-96.
"Questions by the Sea." Rhode Island Review
Vol.1, No.4, 9-11. [see also 1975]
"Return Journey." Stardancer
No.7, 98-101.
"A Teacher's Options." The North American Review
Vol.268, No.1, 36-37.
"The Tour." The Crescent Review Vol.1, No.1, 88-90.
"With Eustachia in Borealis." Krax No.17 (U.K.).
   1984
". . .and Kill It, from 'The Baby.'" CURVD H&Z No.295 (Toybox 13) (Canada).
"The Consummate Miseries." The Pale Fire Review Vol.3, No.3, 17-19. [see also 1982]
"The Enchanted Forest." Gargoyle Magazine Nos.25/26: Fiction 84, 342-66.
"The Epidemic." Telescope
Vol.3, No.1, 83-85.
"The Factory." Crowdancing
Vol.1, No.4 / Vol.2, No.1, 16-23.
"In the Region of No Stars." The Kindred Spirit
No.6.
"Lydia and Edward Get a Dog. . ., from 'The Baby.'" CURVD H&Z No.292 (Toybox 10) (Canada).
   1985
"The Baby." Chouteau Review
Vol.7, Nos.1/2 (Anniversary Issue), 63-71. [revised]
"Juice: A Cartoon." Industrial Sabotage
No.30: Meat & Metal (Canada).
"Walser Wandering." The Volcano Review: All Stories All KindsVol.3, Nos.2/3/4, (Iss.8/9/10) 147-60.
   1986
"Abstract With Mobile." The Crescent Review Vol.4, No.2, 35-41.
"Brothers." Quarterly West
No.22, 36-41.
"The Children's Hour." Fiction 1986: A New Anthology of Innovative Writing
. Guy Daniels and Leslie Woolf Headley, eds. California and New York: Exile Press, 1986, 53-55.
"Professors." The Florida Review Vol.XIV, No.1, 60-62.
"The Quiet Sun and Other Interstellar Matters." Magic Changes Space, 2B-4B. [see also 1979]
"Space Between Bodies." ALEA
No.2.
"Unstable Orbits." The Kindred Spirit
No.8. [reprint, see 1982]
   1987
"The Execution." Cutting Edge Quarterly Vol.2, No.1, 18-19.
"Is it Twelve Yet?" Antietam Review No.6,(Spring), 10-12.
"Janine." Northwest Review
Vol.XXV, No.2, 95-98.
"Three Swan Tales." Oxford Magazine
Vol.III, No.1, 64-65.
   1988
"Adrift." Velocities
No.5, 39-44.
"Building in 3/4." NRG No.30.
"Fatigue." Margin No.6 (U.K.), 86-89.
"The Headache." Dominion Review
No.6, 23-28.
"In the Dust of the Technetiums." The National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side
Vol.3, No.1.
"The New Policemen." Rhododendron
(Summer), 26-29.
"Rabbit, Nun, Policeman, Drowned Man, Lydia." The Fiction Review Vol.2, No.1, 39-41.
"The Romance of Ms. Fish and the Midget." Expresso Tilt! No.8.
"SF." Kiosk
Vol.3, 13.
"Six Fundamental Questions." Timbuktu
No.2, 68-69.
"Sleep." NRG
No.30.
"The Takeover." Rhododendron
(Summer), 23-25.
"The Visitations." Ice River Vol.4, No.2.
   1989
"After the Rain." Fiction International
18:1, 145-47.
"Critical Tendencies of the Middle Ages." Caliban No.7, 168-71.
"Elsewhere." The Texas Review
Vol.X, Nos.1/2, 58-64.
"The Green its Own Grandeur." Satchel
No.1, 4-5.
"Here in Domehead." New Pathways No.15, 50-52.
"Hotel Ortolan." The MacGuffin
Vol.XI, No.2 (Special Issue: Experimental Fiction), 105-11.
"In the Night a Train Passed and It Was Fall." Satchel
No.1, 6-8. [see also 1980]
"Jorinda and Joringel." Satchel No.1, 9-11.
"Like the Light, Inwardly Tilting Toward Desire." The Bad Beverly Show: Eotu April.
"Solo." Permafrost
Vol.11, No.2, 114-17.
"Words Passing Endlessly into Light." Satchel
No.1, 12-14. [see also 1982]
   1990
"The Alps." New Orleans Review
Vol.17, No.2, 76-78.
"End of Term." The Iowa Review Vol.20, No.3, 111-18.
"Formlessness." American Writing
No.2 (Winter 1990-91), 63-70.
"Heartbreak." Colorado North Review Vol.32, Nos.1/2, 160-61.
"Left-Handed." Open Magazine
,61-62. [incomplete printing]
"The Missing Part." Timbuktu No.5, 30-31.
"Murder Story." The Quarterly No.16 (Winter), 188-90.
"Promenade." Gargoyle Nos.37/38, 120.
"She Came, Then, to This Sea." The Texas Review
Vol.11, Nos.3/4 (special release: Contemporary Southern Short Fiction: A Sampler), 108-13.
"The Warning." The Little Magazine No.16, 274-76.
   1991
"Chinese Symbols." 1990 Quarterly Vol.1, No.4, 30-35.
"Coming Home." Chiron Review
Vol.10, No.4, 20.
"Herr Walser on a Stroll Encounters Monsieur Satie Striding." Uncle
Vol.4, No.3, 77-85.
"In the Night a Train Passed and It Was Fall." West Vol.1, No.4, 8-10. [see also 1980, 1989]
"In the Restrooms of Europe." Yellow Silk No.38 (Winter/Spring 91/92), 10-12.
"Moon in Libra." Wind Magazine
Vol.21, No.69, 116-26.
"The War on a Beautiful Day." Zeitgeist
No.5, 13.
"What It Is I'm Up To Here." Gulf Coast Vol.IV, No.2, 27-29.
   1992
"Abstract With Reference to Young Girl." Bluff City Vol.3, No.1, 75-76.
"Annals." Thrust
Vol.1, No.1, 5-9.
"The Hole." The Sucarnochee Review
Vol.X, 23-26.
"Mosaic." Witness
Vol.XI, No.1, 171-75.
"Notes from the Tower." Elvis in Oz. New Stories & Poems from the Hollins Creative Writing Program.
Mary Flinn and George Garrett, eds. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1992, 50-57.
"Movement of Vaulted Chambers." Furious Fictions
No. 1, 7.
   1993
"From a Journal." Diarist's Journal No.45, 25.
"Man on Balcony." Asylum Annual 1993 (Asylum Vol.8, Nos.1-4), 10-11.
   1994
"Jorinda and Joringel." American Letters & Commentary No.6, 1-3. [revised version]
   1995
"Black." Dog River Review No. 27, 10-14.
"Gypsies." Lynx Eye Vol. II No. 3, 9-11.
"The New Tenant." Cripes! No. 2.
"Vampire Days." Lungfish Review Vol. 2 No. 1, 9-12.
   1996
"April Fireball." Brownstone Review No. 2, 6 - 10.
"Artichokes." Conduit No. 4, [six pages; unpaginated].
"The Job." The Slate Vol. I, No. 3, 41-46.
"The New Project." Treasure House No. 7, 8-9.
"I Am Concerned This Morning." Apocalypse Vol. I, 51-57.
   1997
"Dining with the President." Wordplay Vol. III, No. 1, 13-14.
"I Am Concerned This Morning." membrane 2, 22 - 28. [see also above]
   1998
"Sex with Extraterrestrials." Spout No. 21, 34.
"Gulf Nocturne." Way Station No. 4, 8-9.
"The Vampire Opera." Timber Creek Review Vol. 4 No. 4, 19-22.
   1999
"An Admirable Record." Red Rock Review Vol. 1, No. 5, 88-90.
"Food Court." Whelks Walk Review Vol. II, No. 1, 34-37.
"Washtub with Roses." The Raw Seed Review 1, 44-46.
"The House." Wiseblood 1, 6-7.
"A Conference on Snow and Other Matters." Sonora Review 36, 1-10.
"The Face." Foliage: Short Story Quarterly No. 2, 6 -12.
"Rumors: from THE PRESIDENT IN HER TOWERS." eye-rhyme 1, 8-14.
"Interview with the Vampire." American Writing 18, 45-50.
"Mistakes." Coe Review 29, 114-15.
   2000
"The Creature." The Nebraska Review Vol. 28, No.1, 74-79.
"The President." The Iowa Review Vol. 30 No. 1, 62-69.
2001
"Quantum Surge in O Central." Natural Bridge No. 4, 18-21.
"Sleeping Pig." Artisan 2001-One, 32-33.
"The Activated Eye." The Styles No. 1, 61 - 72.
"The Vampire's Assistant." First Intensity No. 16, 208-210.
"Drac." Carriage House Review Vol. 1, 63-69.
   2002
"The Juggler." Neotrope 2, 59.
"Nine-foot Women." Facets Vol. II, No. 2 (2002).
   2003
"Final Report." The Idaho Review Vol. V, 206-210.
"from Tales from the Hybrid Pool, Book Four of The Encyclopedia Mouse Quintet, Chapter Twenty-three: The Ranging." Pembroke Magazine 35, 95-96.
"The Dead Parents." Phantasmagoria Vol. 3 No. 1, 107-09.
"History Lesson." AGNI (2003), 4 pages.
"Parents." Hayden's Ferry Review 32 (Spring/Summer 2003), 41-43.
"Jury Duty." Carriage House Review Vol. II, Issue I, 16-21.
   2004
"I Want to Explain to You Kant's Categorical Imperative." The G. W. Review Vol. XXV, No. 1, 23-25.
"First One Thing, Then Another." The Texas Review Vol. XXIV, Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2003), 28-34.
"The Murderess in Her Bath." First Intensity No. 19, 58-60.
"Louisiana: A Gay Essay." Fiction International 36, 105-07.
"The Vampire in Germany." The Mochila Review (2004), 104-107.
   2005
"Surviving Death." Barrelhouse (www.barrelhousemag.com) 2 pages.
"Language Difficulties: from THE PRESIDENT IN HER TOWERS." Caketrain Issue 2 (Fall/Winter 2004), 159-171.
"Late Winter Story." 580 Split No. 7 (2005), 86-88.
"Heslach." Thieves Jargon (April 2005) 3 pages.
"Prose Piece for Martha Stewart." Pindeldyboz (2005) 3 pages.
"Conversations with Godard." AGNI No. 62 (2005), 191-197.
"After Work." Hotel Amerika Vol. 4, No. 1 (2005), 79-81.
"Doll with Chili Pepper." Fiction International No. 38 (2005), 134-143.
   2006
"The No Blues Man." The Texas Review Vol. 26, Nos. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2005), 59-63.
"The Company at Attention in Time of War" Marginalia Vol. 1 Issue 2 (Fall 2005), 43-45.
"Venus at Her Toilette." The Modern Review Vol. I, No. 4 (Summer 2006), 111-113.
  2007
"The Head-in-Progress." The Modern Review Vol. II, No. 3 (Spring 2007), 99-107.
"Maisie." Coe Review Vol. 37, No. 2 (Spring 2007), 4-11.
"Old Postman Falls Over." The Modern Review Vol. III, No. 1 (Fall 2007).
"Rudolph's Story." Fiction International No. 40 (2007), 138-144.
  2008
"The Effect." The Literary Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (Winter 2008), 109-115.
"The Installation." Green Mountains Review Vol. XXI No. 1, 146-151 .
"Faculty Meeting." Avery 3, 29-35.
"The Children Beneath My Window." Ninth Letter Vol. 5, No.1 (Spring/Summer 2008).
"Carlier and Kayerts." Witness (forthcoming).
"Revelation." Midway Journal (forthcoming).
"German Female, 27." Natural Bridge (forthcoming).
"From the Life of a Project Manager." New Ohio Review (forthcoming).

   STORIES UNDER PSEUDONYMS
T.M. Whale, "5-4-3-2-1." Worst Canadian Stories
Vol.1. Crad Kilodney, ed. Toronto: Charnel House, 1987, 27.
Bulwer Zetford, "Return of the Slime Thing." Worst Canadian Stories
Vol.1. Crad Kilodney, ed. Toronto: Charnel House, 1987, 41-44.
Mickey Smith, "The Knock at the Door." Worst Canadian Stories
Vol.2. Crad Kilodney, ed. Toronto: Charnel House, 1987, 42-43.

   TRANSLATED STORIES
German:
"Ein Teil Fehlt." ("The Missing Part.") trans. Yvonne Studer. Orte Nr.77. Schweizer Literaturzeitschrift. Zürich, 1991, 3-5.
"Die Heimsuchung." ("The Visitation.") trans. Claus Derenda. Plötzliche Geschichten. (Sudden Fiction
) Robert Shepard and James Thomas, eds. Frankfurt: S.Fischer, 1991, 203-6.
"An Robert Walsers Geburtstag: Eine Miniatur.&quo