About the Author
Born in the U.S. but raised in Europe, I attended the International School of Geneva, the University of Ulster and the University of Edinburgh. Back Stateside, I worked as a translator, computer technician, teacher, bartender, and book editor in New York and Texas. My novel Killoyle, published by Dalkey Archive Press, has gone through four editions. Publishers Weekly called it “a virtuoso performance,” and Harvey Pekar, late great author of American Splendor, said “Killoyle ranks among the most impressive novels written by an American in recent years.” German translations, by the award-winning German translator Harry Rowohlt, have appeared under the imprints of Rogner und Bernhard Verlag, Heyne, and Kein und Aber. A CD version was narrated by Harry Rowohlt, who won the 2005 Hesse radio Hörbuchpreis award. Rowohlt and I have given very successful bilingual readings from my work throughout Germany and Austria, most recently in Vienna in July 2011.
My second novel The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad is published by Grove Press, New York. The Village Voice said the novel resembled “Joyce at his comically prolix best” and the Financial Times called Olympiad “grand Irish entertainment.” In German translation, as Rueckkehr nach Killoyle (Return to K.), the novel has been published by Rogner und Bernhard and Kein und Aber.
The third and final volume in the Killoyle trilogy, The Maladjusted Terrorist, also translated by Harry Rowohlt, was published in German as Killoyle Wein und Käse by Rogner und Bernhard in 2006 and by Kein und Aber in 2007. An English edition is sure to follow, but hasn't yet, although an excerpt has been published in The Evergreen Review.
The Adorations is my most ambitious novel to date, a historical satire containing elements of high humor and deep horror, set in two time periods and taking place in three different places simultaneously. It is available as a Kindle or Nook e-book.
My stories, essays and reviews have appeared in various periodicals, including The New York Times Book Review, The Literary Review, The Economist, The Recorder, Texas Observer, and the Austin American-Statesman, and I am a regular contributor to Boston Review's New Fiction Forum. I live in Texas but revisit the old world whenever possible.
My latest novel is Ohiowa Impromptu.
Read my Wikipedia entry.
My second novel The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad is published by Grove Press, New York. The Village Voice said the novel resembled “Joyce at his comically prolix best” and the Financial Times called Olympiad “grand Irish entertainment.” In German translation, as Rueckkehr nach Killoyle (Return to K.), the novel has been published by Rogner und Bernhard and Kein und Aber.
The third and final volume in the Killoyle trilogy, The Maladjusted Terrorist, also translated by Harry Rowohlt, was published in German as Killoyle Wein und Käse by Rogner und Bernhard in 2006 and by Kein und Aber in 2007. An English edition is sure to follow, but hasn't yet, although an excerpt has been published in The Evergreen Review.
The Adorations is my most ambitious novel to date, a historical satire containing elements of high humor and deep horror, set in two time periods and taking place in three different places simultaneously. It is available as a Kindle or Nook e-book.
My stories, essays and reviews have appeared in various periodicals, including The New York Times Book Review, The Literary Review, The Economist, The Recorder, Texas Observer, and the Austin American-Statesman, and I am a regular contributor to Boston Review's New Fiction Forum. I live in Texas but revisit the old world whenever possible.
My latest novel is Ohiowa Impromptu.
Read my Wikipedia entry.