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Above: Jack Pyle, John-Ivan Palmer's Famous Father. View Jack's Gallery.

Recent or Forthcoming

(in chronological order):

• "Bark Like a Dog, The Cutthroat World of Stage Hypnotism," Your Flesh, A Periodical, Issue #42, 1999 (available for $5 from 5110 La Roda Av, Eagle Rock CA 90041).
• "Koversada, Croatia" and "They Want the Kangaroo, Not You" (travel), in Thus Spake the Corpse, An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998, edited by Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal, (Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa) 2000.
• "Sodom in Half: Ricki Hilliard, Lost King fo the Blue Room Ventriloquists," Exquisite Corpse, A Journal of Letters and Life, Oct. 2000 http://www.corpse.org/
• "I Cut Off the Head of Yukio Mishima: Silence and the Search for Hiroyasu Koga," Exquisite Corpse, A Journal of Letters and Life, Issue #10, 2001 http://www.corpse.org/
• "Reality's Honest Truth for Real, Gambler and Mystery Writer, Pete Hautman," Your Flesh, A Periodical, Issue #46, 2002 Available online.
  For other issues see Your Flesh Magazine.
• "The Trance Pushers: A Century of Hypnotism How-To Books," Book Happy, Issue #7, 2002. (Available for $5 from Box 86663, Portland, OR, 97286).
• "John Pilcrow: Lounge Act Poet Blown Away" (memoir) Exquisite Corpse, A Journal of Letters and Life, Issue #14, 2004. http://www.corpse.org/
• "Hostile Break-up, Sinister Reunion: Mesmerism & The Boob," Nth Position Online Magazine, March, 2004. http://www.nthposition.com/
• "Hiding the Elephant," (review of Hiding the Elephant, How Magicians Invented the Impossible, by Jim Steinmeyer), Nth Position Online Magazine, summer 2004.
• "General Semantics and the Chicken Suit Murders: The Hypnotic Realities of Dr. Ronald Dante and Dr. Michael Dean," Nth Position Online Magazine, March 2005. http://www.nthposition.com/
• "Purse Snatch" (short story), Nth Position Online Magazine, Sept, 2005. http://www.nthposition.com/
• "Secrets of the Side Shows" (review of Secrets of the Sideshows by Joe Nickell), Nth Position Online Magazine, Dec 2005. http://www.nthposition.com/
• "American Evolution Debate Is A Joke," St. Cloud (Minnesota) Times, Nov. 30, 2005, p. 5B.
• "The Puppet Pushers, Reflections on Dictatorship, Terrorism, and the Spectacle of Stage Hypnotism" (essay), Nth Position, August, 2006. http://www.nthposition.com/
• "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.