Life in the Harem

I'm excited to announce that a story of mine called Life in the Harem is going to be appearing in Tin House. A lot of details are still pending, but for now I encourage you to kick back and enjoy the short story trailer that I whipped together in honor of this excellent news.

I'm pretty sure everyone is going to love this trailer. By everyone, of course, I am referring to people who spent the mid to late 80's playing video games.

Oh ...

I just googled the phrase "short story trailer." I guess I didn't invent it. To be honest, I'm kind of relieved.

Somebody should invent the short story trailer. Oh wait, I totally just invented the short story trailer.

Book trailers are pretty big right now, but do you know what's going to be even pretty bigger? You guessed it: trailers for individual short stories written by people who don't have books yet.

Check out this one that I just put together for my upcoming McSweeney's story:



On a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being I take this video seriously and 1 being I am actually aware of how ridiculous it is), this trailer comes in at about a 6.

The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 2

Just found out that a story of mine is going to be included in The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 2. I'm pretty happy about this, because a.) it's an honor and b.) it means that my first published story, Lie Down and Die, will be making a triumphant return to print.

"[...] like a lump, like a clot, like a blockage: the sensation that you are here but could not be here, in a world that could not be but is."

Currently reading Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino. Fun fact about what a spotty reader I am: I consider myself to be a huge Italo Calvino fan, and yet had never heard of this book until a copy of it was mailed to me by a concerned friend.

Adding to my readerly shame is the fact that this book rules. Anyway, without wanting to get into a whole thing here, I guess what I'm saying is that you should probably check it out.