4.30.12

Better beware ... Walpurgis Night, tonight.

Your reporter will be reporting in hideous person tomorrow.

New York Review of Science Fiction Readings:

WHO:
Michael Cisco
John Shirley

WHEN:
Tuesday, May 1st
Doors open at 6:30, event at 7:00

HOW (much):
Free; $7 donation suggested

WHERE:
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street (bet. Houston & Prince)

4.23.12

Your reporter is very pleased to announced that

THE GREAT LOVER

has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award.

Please join me in expressing thanks to the judges on behalf of THE GREAT LOVER.

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“With Michael Cisco doing things like this, sometimes it feels like the rest of literature might as well get up and head home.”

China Miéville

3.29.12

Hello all --

CELEBRANT now has a page of its own at the Chomu site, here.

Pictured here is the marvellous cover art by Christopher Askew.

Release date is mid-June, the fourteenth I think.

2.16.12

Updates ...

The Dadaoism anthology from Chomu Press is going forward as planned. Here is the TOC.

Ex Occidente's tribute volume dedicated to Bruno Schulz has its webpage as well, here. My story, "The Vile Game of Gunter and Landau" is included, and I am proud to have the opportunity to salute Schulz.

There has been a bit of an exchange involving the Bealu translation. In other translation-related news, I've recently completed what I believe is the only English version of Julio Cortazar's short story "Headache" ("Cefalea"). I hope to be able to present it soon.

I've also just finished translating a collection of short stories first published a little over a hundred years ago, and also, to the best of my knowledge, never before rendered in English: Cuentos Nerviosos, or Nervous Stories, by Carlos Diaz Dufoo, Sr. I'm currently working on doing the same for his son, Carlos Diaz Dufoo Jr (hijo), who wrote epigrams, philosophical essays, and apparently plays. Information about these two is very scarce in English.

2.6.12

You can read a posthumous interview with Franz Kafka, as relayed by your reporter to the best of his meager necromantic abilities, here.

And the opening passages from three of my unpublished novels, The Wretch of the Sun, MEMBER, and UNLANGUAGE, have been posted here.

The image is accurate, excepting in that I'm right handed.

1.19.12

Announcement:

New novel:

Title: CELEBRANT

Publisher: Chômu Press

When: 2012

More details to come.

12.20.11

News from under the isolator ...

I'm very honored to announce that a story of mine was selected for inclusion in The Weird, a mammoth anthology of some of the best weird fiction of all time. This will be released in May of next year.

Weird Fiction Review has named The Great Lover "Weird Book of the Year!"

D.F. Lewis' very thoughtful real-time review of The Great Lover can be found here.

My essay on supernatural literature and what's wrong with Todorov's definition of "the fantastic" is now available in the print version of The Weird Fiction Review #2, edited by S.T. Joshi and published by Centipede Press. Centipede will also be releasing a multi-volume collection of my novels, essays, and stories next year ... more on that later.

It's likely that a new novel from your reporter will be appearing from Chomu Press in 2012, and a new short story of mine has been chosen for their upcoming Dadaoism anthology.

And the Kafka blog is already up to aphorism #20.

Many happy returns of the season to everyone, and thank you for your continued attention and interest!