Artaud and Desnos: Spread Their Story!

Do you visit the library! (You should.) Do you have a library card? Would you like more people to encounter the writings of Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos? Then make a request at your library to add Traitor Comet and L’Etoile de Mer (The Starfish) to the collection at your local library! You can requestContinue reading “Artaud and Desnos: Spread Their Story!”

L’Étoile de Mer – Book Two!

L’Étoile de Mer (The Starfish), the sequel to Traitor Comet, is at the publisher and will come out this year! This is book two in my novel series on the lives and friendship of Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos. Again, the title was inspired by a work by Desnos.

Designing the Cover

Buy book one, Traitor Comet! As stated, the first book in the series, Traitor Comet, will be coming out soon. I just wanted to give an update: copyediting is done, the book is being designed, and I have to choose my cover style. Written from the point of view of a fictional friend, Traitor CometContinue reading “Designing the Cover”

The First Novel is Out!

Buy book one, Traitor Comet! For technical reasons, the first book to come out this year(!) will indeed be Traitor Comet, set from May 1926 – June 1926. I had considered combining it with book two, L’Etoile de Mer (The Starfish), set from September 1926 – May 1927, but the publisher could not bind aContinue reading “The First Novel is Out!”

From Book 2: Dadesque Dating

“Do you remember when we took a month off and camped out along the Rhein?” I asked Franz suddenly. “That summer before the War. We walked from town to town, slept under the stars—”             “I remember.” Franz laughed suddenly. “And you built that raft and tried to float out to the Mäuseturm. You didn’tContinue reading “From Book 2: Dadesque Dating”

From Book 2: Baudelaire and Artaud

What a curious relationship the reader has with a writer, I thought one day as I sat in my office reading Charles Baudelaire. When a writer’s work was broken off as Baudelaire’s was due to his drinking and carousing, the reader resented what Baudelaire had not written, what he could have written. But what man,Continue reading “From Book 2: Baudelaire and Artaud”