Obsessive Reader
Before writing came the reading. An unstoppable force within me that I have labeled "obsessive", slightly more profound urge than "compulsive. But, first, an Introduction, a version of myself.
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I studied English and got a degree in the Writing Program at Penn State in the early seventies. After attending Columbia University School of the Arts for a brief time, I traveled around Europe and lived on and off in Florence, Italy. For twenty years, I lived from his earnings as a cook at a New Jersey seaside town before finally giving up (the good life) and getting a full-time job as a teacher of History, Sociology, and Film at a small academy near Trenton New Jersey.
I regularly published articles for Bright Lights Film Journal since 2001. Other of my film essays have appeared in Film Comment, The Film Journal, The Journal of Religion and Film, Talking Pictures, Cinetext, and Metaphilm. I had other regular writing gigs at Unlikely Stories (so far, 93 feature pieces in a series called A Sardine on Vacation and. There were also a few essays about teaching History published in Archipelago, as well as several articles about my travels in Europe, and three pieces of literary criticism at elimae. My fiction could be found at many places online (or notonline anymore): Fiction Funhouse, Fiction Warehouse, Gadfly Online, Wilmington Blues, 3 AM, 5_trope, The Sidewalk's End, Octavo, Double Dare Press, Arbutus, Eclectica, Facets, Skive magazine, and InDigest. Pre-Internet publications included literary magazines like The Sun, Gadfly, Timber Creek Review, Curriculum Vitae, The MacGuffin, The Monocacy Valley Review, The Iconoclast, and A Summer's Reading.
My first three books include A Sardine on Vacation, fiction (Spuyten Duyvil), The End of Travel, a memoir (Ravenna Press), and Odd Pursuits, a collection of stories (Wild Child Publishing). All of these books were published in 2006.
Since then, new books have appeared through Kindle (KDP). First was Berthcut & Sons, my first novel, the story of the birth of a salesman (sorry, Willie Loman). Two other works of fiction are available in a second collection of stories, Fits of Generosity, and a book of three novellas called The Lies Commonly Agreed Upon. There are also has several nonfiction works: The Interpretive Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick, The Education Battleground, Half-Baked Ideas: excursions into improbable possibilities. In addition: there are Near Death Experiences: very short stories, con-Glom-er-a-tion, a novel in the form of a play (a sequel to Berthcut & Sons), and several of my plays collected in separate editions.
In September 2020, The Hidden Life, was published by Atmosphere Press.
In May 2025, MATE: a novel in twenty games was published by Spuyten Duyvil.
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I studied English and got a degree in the Writing Program at Penn State in the early seventies. After attending Columbia University School of the Arts for a brief time, I traveled around Europe and lived on and off in Florence, Italy. For twenty years, I lived from his earnings as a cook at a New Jersey seaside town before finally giving up (the good life) and getting a full-time job as a teacher of History, Sociology, and Film at a small academy near Trenton New Jersey.
I regularly published articles for Bright Lights Film Journal since 2001. Other of my film essays have appeared in Film Comment, The Film Journal, The Journal of Religion and Film, Talking Pictures, Cinetext, and Metaphilm. I had other regular writing gigs at Unlikely Stories (so far, 93 feature pieces in a series called A Sardine on Vacation and. There were also a few essays about teaching History published in Archipelago, as well as several articles about my travels in Europe, and three pieces of literary criticism at elimae. My fiction could be found at many places online (or notonline anymore): Fiction Funhouse, Fiction Warehouse, Gadfly Online, Wilmington Blues, 3 AM, 5_trope, The Sidewalk's End, Octavo, Double Dare Press, Arbutus, Eclectica, Facets, Skive magazine, and InDigest. Pre-Internet publications included literary magazines like The Sun, Gadfly, Timber Creek Review, Curriculum Vitae, The MacGuffin, The Monocacy Valley Review, The Iconoclast, and A Summer's Reading.
My first three books include A Sardine on Vacation, fiction (Spuyten Duyvil), The End of Travel, a memoir (Ravenna Press), and Odd Pursuits, a collection of stories (Wild Child Publishing). All of these books were published in 2006.
Since then, new books have appeared through Kindle (KDP). First was Berthcut & Sons, my first novel, the story of the birth of a salesman (sorry, Willie Loman). Two other works of fiction are available in a second collection of stories, Fits of Generosity, and a book of three novellas called The Lies Commonly Agreed Upon. There are also has several nonfiction works: The Interpretive Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick, The Education Battleground, Half-Baked Ideas: excursions into improbable possibilities. In addition: there are Near Death Experiences: very short stories, con-Glom-er-a-tion, a novel in the form of a play (a sequel to Berthcut & Sons), and several of my plays collected in separate editions.
In September 2020, The Hidden Life, was published by Atmosphere Press.
In May 2025, MATE: a novel in twenty games was published by Spuyten Duyvil.
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