Other Writing

Yikes—you’ve reached an older version of my Other Writing page!  There’s a much newer one on my author website, here.

 

Eikaiwa Bums Chapbook

 

Eikawa Bums is my short story chapbook from Blue Cubicle Press’s Overtime series, about the social pressures and dating woes faced by foreign teachers at an English conversation school in Japan.

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Concord New Hampshire Writers’ Project Anthologies

I served as series editor of these two anthologies of short fiction, poetry, and essays for the New Hampshire Writer’s Project by writers from the Concord, NH area. They’re FREE to read as a PDF or eBook, and both include work by yours truly.

 

2019 Concord Writer’s Night Out Anthology

Featuring my photo essay, The Tetrapods

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2018 Concord Writer’s Night Out Anthology

Featuring my short fiction piece, Rejection.

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The TRAM – Toyama’s Random-Ass Magazine

        

In April 2019 I took on the co-editor role for the TRAM, a local art and culture zine for the English-speaking community in Toyama, Japan. We publish four issues a year featuring articles on Japanese culture, local business reviews, fiction, visual art, poetry, and whatever random-ass stuff we feel like.  It’s free to read online, though I can hook you up with a hard copy if you’re interested ;-)

I also write a TRAM column called Let’s Talk About Japan Books! where I review and discuss Japanese literature and Japan-related nonfiction:

 

Around the Net

Some of my other writing.

Painting’s Just My Day Job – How working as a housepainter helped me develop better writing habits.  From Four Ties Literary Review.

Why I Worked Unpaid Overtime for Two Years – Article about one of my worst Day Job experiences, for The Billfold on Medium.com.

Just Before the Sakura-jima Eruption – Short travel piece about my trip to the Sakura-jima volcano, one of the most active in Japan. From the Stone Bridge Press literary blog.

Apples Are Grown in Aomori – Photo essay about my trip to northern Japan, published in Eastlit.

Leaked Literature: Why We Should Respect Salinger’s Wishes – Essay about the 2014 bootleg J.D. Salinger manuscript and how the author shaped Holden Caulfield before The Catcher in the Rye.  From The Millions.

From The Charleston Anvil art and lit mag (available in hard copy only):

 

Podcasts & Sound Recordings

Adjunct Crisis: Labor Issues in Higher Education – Podcast co-produced with Jason Hertz, talking with adjunct professor Chris Small about working conditions in academia. For the University of Nebraska Watershed series.

How Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Changed My Life –  I read my essay for The Drunken Odyssey’s Books That Changed My Life series.

 

My (Old) Blogs

The Stack of Books Next to My Bed – My book review blog from the early days of this website, kept from 2016 to 2018. I read an average of one book a week for two years and reviewed each one in 99 words or less.

A Wave of the Hand – My first blog of offbeat nonfiction, straight-up fiction, and miscellaneous reflections, kept from 2007 to 2016.  Here’s a few favorite entries: