John-Ivan Palmer

Literary Author

• Author Bio
• Work Published Since 2000
• Work Published Before 2000
• Stage Hypnosis

Work Published Since 2000

2000

• "Sodom In Half, Ricki Hilliard, Lost King Of The Blue Room Ventriloquists, Exquisite Corpse, #7, corpse.org, 2000.
• "They Want The Kangaroo, Not You " and "Koversada, Yugoslavia" in Thus Spake The Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998, vol. 2, ed. by Andrei Codrescu & Laura Rosenthal, Black Sparrow Press, 2000.

2001

• "I Cut Off the Head of Yukio Mishima: Silence and the Search for Hiroyasu Koga" [essay], Exquisite Corpse, Issue 10, October 2001. http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_10/broken_news/palmer.html

2002

• "The Trance Pushers: A Century of Hypnotism How-To Books," Book Happy, #7, 2002.
• "Reality's Honest Truth: For Real Gambler and Novelist Pete Hautman" [article & interview], Your Flesh Quarterly, Winter 2002

2004

• "Hostile Break-up, Sinister Reunion: Mesmerism & The Boob" [essay], Nth Position Online Magazine, nthposition.com, posted March 2004.
• "John Pilcrow, Lounge Act Poet Blown Away," Exquisite Corpse, A Journal of Letters and Life, cyber issue #14 (www.corpse.org/), summer, 2004.
• "Hiding the Elephant," (review of Hiding the Elephant, How Magicians Invented the Impossible, by Jim Steinmeyer), Nth Position Online Magazine, summer 2004, http://www.nthposition.com/hidingtheelephant.php

2005

• "General Semantics and the Chicken Suit Murders, The Hypnotic Realities of Dr. Ronald Dante and Dr. Michael Dean," Nth Position Online Magazine, http://www.nthposition.com/generalsemanticsand.php March 2005.
• "Purse Snatch" (short story), Nth Position Online Magazine, Sept, 2005. http://www.nthposition.com/pursesnatch.php
• "Secrets of the Side Shows" (review of Secrets of the Sideshows by Joe Nickell), Nth Position Online Magazine, Dec 2005. http://www.nthposition.com/secretsof.php
• "American Evolution Debate Is A Joke," St. Cloud (Minnesota) Times, Nov. 30, 2005, p. 5B.

2006

• "Invasion of the Face Freaks, Japanese Ganguro (Black-face) Culture" in Strange Attractors, summer 2006. http://sondralondon.com/
• "What Is Hypnosis?" [with special effects and a hypnotic induction] in Strange Attractors, summer 2006. http://sondralondon.com/
• "The Puppet Pushers, Reflections on Dictatorship, Terrorism, and the Spectacle of Stage Hypnotism" (essay), Nth Position Online Magazine, August, 2006. http://www.nthposition.com/

2007

• "Intellectual Seekers in the Notorious Tenderloin, San Francisco," Nth Position Online Magazine, http://www.nthposition.com/intellectualseekers.php, February 2007.
• review of The Season of Love, Bitter Almonds and Delayed Rains, Selected Stories & Other Pieces, by Mazhar ul Islam, ed. & trans. by Christopher Shackle, Nth Position Online Magazine, http://www.nthposition.com/theseasonoflovebitter.php, Summer 2007.
• review of Fission Among the Fanatics, by Tom Bradley, Nth Position Online Magazine, http://www.nthposition.com/fissionamong.php, Summer 2007.
• "Civil War in Guatemala," Whistling Shade, http://www.whistlingshade.com/0702/0702.html, Summer, 2007.

2008

• "Rip Off the Ears: Searching for Demosthenes' Secret in Mexico," Nth Position Online Magazine, http://www.nthposition.com/ripofftheearssearching.php, January, 2008.
• letter, Whistling Shade, Spring, 2008.
• review of Lemur, by Tom Bradley, Rain Taxi, Vol. 13 No. 2, Summer, 2008.
• Forward to Edging Past Reality, by David Fingerman (Minneapolis, Two Harbors Press), 2008.
• "The Day I Stared Down President Lyndon Johnson," Whistling Shade, www.whistlingshade.com/0804/0804.html, Winter, 2008.

2009

• review of Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin, Nth Position Online Magazine, http://www.nthposition.com/bornstandingup.php, January, 2009.
• "Shoe Boy's Private Reflections," (story) in Love Hotel City, ed. by Andrew Stevens (London, Future Fiction), 2009.
• "Application for the Chaparral Writers Society," (story), The Big Stupid Review, http://www.thedrillpress.com/tex/2009-04-01/tex-2009-04-01-sheep-jipalmer-01.shtml, April, 2009.
• "Affiliated Shadows" (story), Sleetmagazine.com, http://sleetmagazine.com/selected/flash/v1/palmer_ji/palmer.html, April, 2009.
• “Origins of Mesmeric Death” (article), Whistling Shade, Spring / Summer, 2009. Also in slightly abridged form at http://www.whistlingshade.com/0901/0901.html.
• review of Giordano Bruno, Philosopher / Heretic, by Ingrid Rowland, Rain Taxi, Vol 14, No 2, Summer, 2009.
• review of Posthuman Dada Guide, by Andrei Codrescu, Rain Taxi, Vol 14, No 3, Fall, 2009.
• Motels of Burning Madness (novel), (The Drill Press: Cedar Park TX), ISBN 978-0-9840961-3-8.
• review of Ananios of Kleitor, by George Economou, Rain Taxi, Vol. 14, No 3, Winter, 2009.

2010

• "Eating Your Words in a Prague Cafe," (article on Jaroslav Hasek), Whistling Shade, Winter, 2010. http://www.whistlingshade.com/0902/palmer.html
• John-Ivan Palmer interviewed by Tom Bradley in Exquisite Corpse, http://www.corpse.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=559&Itemid=40, Jan. 2010.
• "Sodom in Half," [reprint] in New Cross-F***** Musings on a Manic Reality, Nonfiction of the Enigmatic Polygeneration, ed. Tom Bradley (Leeds, UK, Dog Horn Publishing), 2010, p. 7ff.

2011

• [review] The Last Greatest Magician in the World, Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards by Jim Steinmeyer (New York, Tarcher/Penguin), Nth Position, January, 2011. http://www.nthposition.com/thelastgreatestmagician.php
• Interview with Jim Steinmeyer (with illustrations) in Fortean Times, Issue FT274, 2011, p. 67ff.
• Necessity in the House of Illusion (memoir), Whistling Shade, Spring / Summer 2011.
• [review] Our Savage Art by William Logan, Rain Taxi online edition: Spring 2011. http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2011spring/logan.shtml
• "I Peck Thy Face, William Logan's Savage Criticism," in Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind (anthology), Unlikely Books (Sunset LA), 2011, pp 259-263.
• "Above It All" (short story), Wild River Review, Dec. http://www.wildriverreview.com/fiction-above-it-all-john-ivan-palmer.
• Excerpt from "Sodom in Half" (short story), read by Dave Migman on Dogcast 10, Manchester (UK), http://soundcloud.com/dog-horn-publishing/dogcast-10, beginning at time code 16:06 and ending at 24:30.