Non-Fiction:

A German bass player who was almost in my band the Freudian Sluts believes my stories to be reminiscent of Lucia Berlin's. I didn't know her work, but didn't think our stuff was that similar. Better I should remind people of Stanley Elkin!

 

For what it's worth, I was one of the winners of the PEN Syndicated Fiction contest late in the century before that in which I wrote these 112 stories in all sorts of unlikely places. I wrote The Total Babe while living in the wine country north of San Francisco in 2000, and both A Message From Jesus in Braille and A History of the Jews while in arty, grimy Beacon, New York. The remaining three were all born, bred, and haphazardly proof-read in the southwest corner of London.