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About Me

My work has appeared in Narrative Magazine , Smokelong quarterly , Elimae , and elsewhere online.
Angela Stubbs at Bookslut reviewed The Levitationist. You can read it here.
My Book, The Levitationist, is available from Ravenna Press here.

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."--Voltaire(1694 - 1778)
"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows."--Ovid(43 BC - 17 AD)
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."--Robert Frost
"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."--Kahlil Gibran(1883 - 1931)
"Genius is born--not paid."--Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."--Eleanor Roosevelt(1884 - 1962)

My Interests

I love snow, trees, music, wearing a scarf, coffee, pretty hands, prayer, literature, poetry, writing, guitars, motorcycles, art, photography, dogs, birds, deer, deep blue water, the stars, the moon, my wife, Jesus, thunderstorms, clouds, rainbows, empty rooms, ceilings, sky, colors, open windows, God, Christianity, spiritual gifts, the Bible, hiding places, unusual lamps, old clocks, foreign film, Russian poetry, Serbian poetry, theatre, old movies, playwriting.

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Some of my very interesting friends:

Music:

Keane, Muse, Belle and Sebastian, Radiohead, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Clash, Throwing Muses, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Decemberists, Holly & the Italians, Tegan & Sara, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, White Stripes, Death Cab for Cutie, Elvis Costello, The Flaming Lips!, The Cult, rockabilly, psychobilly, Andrew Bird, Rufus Wainwright, The Cure, Hillsongs United, Chris Tomlin.

Movies:

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Books:

Books I teach: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Illustrated Man, The Outsiders, The Adventures of Ulysses (Greek Mythology). Favorite fiction: Vladimir Nabokov, Salman Rushdie, David Foster Wallace, Lydia Davis, Thomas Pynchon, Milan Kundera, John Gardner, Curtis White, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Unrue, Diane Williams, William T. Vollmann, Richard Powers. Poetry: Charles Simic, Christopher Howell, Rumi, Wallace Stevens.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ

My Blog

New work at Mad Hatters Review

My two short pieces, "Boreas and Orithya (A Myth Retold),"and "Other Rooms" are live in issue 7 of Mad Hatters' Review (www.madhattersreview.com). Warning: might be offensive to some. But to lovers of...
Posted by V on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:38:00 PST

New Story at Narrative

I have a new story up at Narrative Magazine (www.narrativemagazine.com). It's actually a story I wrote several years ago but reworked this past summer. I've always liked the story. I'm gla...
Posted by V on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:47:00 PST

Writing

The writing is pouring out right now. Finally, things are starting to take shape. Delillo and DF Wallace talk about an infant trope/metaphor for being a fiction writer, and it makes sense....
Posted by V on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:50:00 PST