STORIES TRUE AND FALSE
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TRUE
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On the arrest of Chicano activist Carlos Montes. From Los Angeles magazine.
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On the role of water in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, in Harper's (scale the paywall if you can) . This one won a PEN Center USA award.
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A report from Arizona from Slake number two.
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On death in Los Angeles. From Los Angeles magazine. This one won a National Magazine Award..
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On the drug war in Mexico, for the London Review of Books. (Behind a paywall--sorry.)
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On the death of the Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, and the man who may have killed him. Also in the LRB, but you can read it here.
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On the Khmer Rouge trials and genocide tourism. (Also behind a paywall.)
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A sad story about our own gulag archipelago, and about Victoria Arellano, who was allowed to die while in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
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About architecture and revolution and what happens when they grow old.
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On the poet Frank Stanford, and holes within holes.
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On Haiti's first presidential election since its last coup.
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On the Minuteman Project. (Originally published in The Believer, but online in full here.)
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A report from New Orleans just after the storm.
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An extremely strange, sad story, and hard to summarize.
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On the "Sexually Violent Predator," moral panic, other such pleasantries. Only an excerpt here, alas.
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A report from Afghanistan, two years into the longest war in American history.
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On riding the rails. God this feels like a long time ago.
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YOU DECIDE (ESSAYS & REVIEWS)
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On Victor Shklovsky
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On Julio Cortázar.
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On Frederic Tuten.
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Inaugural essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books, which, like the book, is not dead.
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On Tom McCarthy.
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On torture and other American traditions.
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On Zionism.
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Somehow the L.A. Times agreed to print this.
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Which seems more perfect with each passing day.
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On John Edgar Wideman's Fanon.
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On G.V. Desani.
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On Gilbert Sorrentino.
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On Donald Barthelme.
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On Kathy Acker.
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On Brian Evenson.
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On Afghanistan and Our Pure Intentions.
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MORE OBLIQUELY TRUE (ie FICTION)
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On boys and birds, in BOMB.
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A short excerpt from the new novel, in sturdy pdf.
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A very short story in the excellent Slake.
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The marbles have been sold, but the story is free.
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Originally published in BOMB, but readable online at CultureStrike, and as a podcast on the BOMBsite site.
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Sometimes not so obliquely.
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An excerpt from The Suitors.
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Just a tease, they give you.
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A love triangle comprised of a man, a woman, and a dead giant squid. Originally published in McSweeney's, but this kind fellow posted it on his blog.
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The story appeared in BOMB, is only available in print, but this is a recording of me reading it. Download at your own risk.
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