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Zendik Memoir Available for Pre-order!
Hello, fellowbeings! My Zendik memoir, Mating in Captivity, due out from She Writes Press on May 8, 2018, is now available for pre-order! Go here for signed copies; here to purchase directly from the publisher (and maybe discover other intriguing memoirs); here to support your local indie bookstore; and here to add another drop to the largest ( Read more... ) -
Zendik Memoir Live on Kickstarter!
Fellowbeings, it's magic time! I just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to publish MATING IN CAPTIVITY, my Zendik memoir, and bring it to a broad audience. The campaign will run from March 11 through April 9, 2017. Please pledge, spread the word, contact me with comments or questions. Thanks so much for your past, present, and future -
MATING IN CAPTIVITY is on its way to publication!
I've signed a contract to publish MATING IN CAPTIVITY, my Zendik memoir, with She Writes Press. I plan to fund publication through a Kickstarter campaign, launching March 11, 2017; the book will come out in Spring 2018 (if you pre-order through Kickstarter, you'll get your copy early). For more info, please go here. -
Reading Friday 9/11 from MATING IN CAPTIVITY
If you are in or near New York City: Please consider joining Moe Kornbluth, Meghan Casey and me this Friday, September 11th, at 7 P.M., for a night of memoir presented by Wordsprouts, the Park Slope Food Coop’s reading series. I will be reading from my Zendik book, MATING IN CAPTIVITY. -
Come on over and visit my new Internet home!
Finally, finally, my new web site is up (I started working on it two years ago and got totally stumped by the bio). It is humble, it is modest, it is by no means a miracle of hypertext - but I hope it will provide you, dear reader, with a measure of verbal nourishment. Among other things, I plan to post outtakes from my Zendik book (that is, stuff ( Read more... ) -
Reading from MATING IN CAPTIVITY in NYC Friday, February 6th, 2015
NYC people: I will be reading an excerpt from my memoir manuscript (currently titled MATING IN CAPTIVITY) at the February installment of the Lamprophonic reading series. If you come, you'll get a sneak preview of my all-new prologue and the first five or so pages of Chapter 1. Plus you'll get to hear from five other up and coming writers. ( Read more... ) -
Bitter-Angry, Bitter-Sweet: Reflections on a Nine-Year Journey
I started this blog in spring 2005, just a few months after leaving Zendik. At that time, I still cleaved to the Zendik mission. I wanted, more than anything, to mow down my “DeathKultur” fantasies so I could return to the Farm and commit for life. Instead, with a lot of help from many friends, I stumbled towards understanding Zendik as a mirage, a ( Read more... ) -
I'll be reading at Bar Thalia in NYC on Friday, June 21st at 8:30pm
This Friday, June 21st, I'll be reading from my Zendik book (working title: Mating in Captivity) at Bar Thalia, on NYC's Upper West Side. The event is part of the Lamprophonic Emerging Writers Series. There will be three other readers: Audrey McGlinchy, Carmen Petaccio, and Daniel McDonald (you can read bios here). Each writer will have ten minutes ( Read more... ) -
Zendik Update
Fawn & Erim are selling the farm. The asking price is $950,000. -
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Arol died on June 6th, 2012. She was 73.
May her soul rest in peace. May her complicated legacy turn to renewing humus, as it composts.