Nathan "N.R." Gaddis’s Reviews > Alexander Theroux: A Fan’s Notes > Status Update

Trying to get my hands on an early copy of this one!

Chris wrote: "Trying to get my hands on an early copy of this one!"

Email him directly. I'm sure he'll send you one. Does he know you have a youtube channel? Let him know I sent you.

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Chris wrote: "Trying to get my hands on an early copy of this one!"

Email him directly. I'm sure he'll send you one. Does he know you have a youtube channel? Let him know I sent you."

Thanks! Jim Gauer told me he sent my Novel Explosives video to Steven Moore since I talk about My Back Pages in the beginning. :)
I'll name-drop you.

Chris, ask him about the short story collection that is supposedly coming out this year too!

Hey, Dax. Theroux is still looking for a publisher or an agent to represent the collection. Apparently there was some sort of falling out with Zerogram Press which was going to publish the story collection. If anyone has some solid connections with agents or publishers who care about this kind of art (rare, I know), I'd be happy to pass it along to Theroux.

I'm surprised Fantagraphics isn't taking it!

Chris wrote: "I'm surprised Fantagraphics isn't taking it!"

Perhaps they're not happy with the sales numbers of his previous work? What do they expect though? Even with proper marketing, most books fail anyway.

Thanks for the update George. Surely with all the small presses out there someone will come to their senses and publish it!

And sorry NR I missed your previous update giving the same update

Dax wrote: "Thanks for the update George. Surely with all the small presses out there someone will come to their senses and publish it!"

It took me three years and around 100 small publishers to find a place for my first novel. Theroux has a lifetime's worth of work under his belt so I would hope that would work in his favor but I'm not too optimistic.

Dax wrote: "Thanks for the update George. Surely with all the small presses out there someone will come to their senses and publish it!"

Here is the table of contents, by the way, according to the excerpt Theroux sent me:

Early Stories

A Woman with Sauce

Fark Pooks

An English Railroad

The American Tourist Home

Finocchio; or, The Man with the Long Nose

Mrs. Marwood’s Spunkies

A Wordstress in Williamsburg

Herbert Head, Gent.

Scugnizzo’s Pasta Co.

The Copernicus Affair

Watergraphs

Fables

The Schinocephalic Waif

The Great Wheadle Tragedy

The Wragby Cars

Master Snickup’s Cloak

St. Winifred’s Bells

The Loneliest Person in Scituate

Captain Birdseye’s Expedition

A Christmas Fable

Julia de Chateauroux; or, The Girl with Blue Hair

Queen Gloriana’s Revenge

St. Malecroix

Zoroaster and Mrs. Titcomb

Song at Twilight: A Fable of Ancient China

The Enthronization of Vinegarfly

The Ratmansky Diamonds

Rolf Vowels

The Oxholt Violin

Later Stories

Summer Bellerophon; or, The Agonies of James Querpox

Blackrobe

Genius

Envenoming Junior

Madonna Pica

An Interview with the Poet Cora Wheatears

Grasso Sovrapesso and the Bent Nail

Chosen Locksley Swims the Tiber

The Brawn of Diggory Priest

The Missing Angel; or, Seven Blackbirds Stand for a Secret That’s Never Been Told

The Nemesis of Jawdat Du