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About Me

I'm 6-3, wear dark sunglasses, prefer animals to people, and write revolutionary prose.

I'm also the author of 14 books, including nine fiction/docufiction collections, one nonfiction/docufiction collection, and four novels.

My fiction has appeared in such journals as Mississippi Review; City Lights Review; Paris Review; New Directions in Prose and Poetry; Chicago Review; Chelsea; Fiction; Central Park; Witness; Black Ice; Minnesota Review; Boundary 2; ACM; Black Warrior Review; Cream City Review; Two Girls'Review; and New Novel Review. Stories have been anthologized in Pushcart Prize; Best American Stories; Best of American Humor; Storming the Reality Studio; American Made; Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation; After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology; Bateria and Am Lit (Germany); Borderlands (Mexico); Praz (Italy); Positive (Japan); and elsewhere.

I also teach literature at San Diego State University (San Diego, California) and am editor of Fiction International .

To read more about me, please visit my website at JaffeAntiJaffe.com .

My Blog

Looking for a New York Reading!

One of my scheduled readings in NY, at the Brooklyn Public Library, had to cancel because of withdrawal of city funds! I will be in NY between Oct 8-13, reading at the KGB Bar on October 10, but I'm l...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:46:00 GMT

new stories; new interview

I've recently completed a mutual interview between me and Terese Svoboda, published in Mad Hatters' Review Issue 10, Fall 2008. ( http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue10/interview2...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:18:00 GMT

Orfeo

An excerpt from my docufiction Orfeo, titled "Orfeo," was just posted on the Fiction International blog. The volume, Orfeo, is comprised of 15 fictions and docufictions which have to do both with the ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:15:00 GMT

Excerpt from Paris 60 on Starcherone site

Ted Pelton of Starcherone Books has posted an excerpt from Paris 60, a docufiction based on my recent 60-day sabbatical in Paris. Please read it and provide feedback here.
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:26:00 GMT

I’m taking my book tour to Paris

I will be leaving for Paris on March 23 and returning on May 27th. 15 Serial Killers has just been translated into French and I will give readings and talks at the University of Orleans and at several...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:43:00 GMT

Jesus Coyote is coming!

Forthcoming from Raw Dow Screaming Press in August 2008: Harold Jaffe's Jesus Coyote, a novel based on the Manson "family."
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:42:00 GMT

New York Hearts Jaffe!

The reading at the Cornelia St Cafe theater went extremely well, thanks in fair part to my reading partner, the Broadway and off-Broadway actress, Kathleen Chalfant. She did some interesting variation...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:36:00 GMT

I Perform in Greenwich Village

I will be giving a performance, along with the actress Kathleen Chalfant, of my dramatic dialogues on Monday, 11/26, in the Cornelia St Cafe Playhouse in Greenwich Village.
Posted by on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:00:00 GMT