Books
Riding A Tiger, Or the Self-Criticism of Arnold Fisher. (Hong Kong: Asia 2000, 1998.) Novel. Excerpted in B. Baker, Ed. Chinese Ink, Western Pen, Hong Kong: Oxford U. Press, 2000, 118ff.
Ghost Traps (Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press, spring 1991). Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, 1989 (published 1991).
Full-tilt Boogie, and Other Stories (Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press, 1989). Sponsored by Massachusetts Council on Arts and Humanities.
The Progress of a Fire (N.Y.:Simon and Schuster: Dec. 1985). Novel.
Freedom Dues, Or, A Gentleman's Progress in the New World (N.Y.: The Dial Press, 1980). Novel.
Skin and Bones (Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State Review Press, 1978). Stories.
Radio Drama:
The Preacher's Wife. Commissioned for National Public Radio's "Earplay," a one-hour radio drama, Spring 1978. Not produced.
Stories:
"The Vampire and the Bear," Flyfish Journal II, no. 2 (Octo. 2010. )
"Golden Birds," Massachusetts Review (Spring/Summer) 2009.
"The Ghost in the Mirror," Asian Cha, online only www.asiancha.com. 2009.
"Monster Blind Trout and how to Catch Them," winner On the Water fiction prize, forthcoming Feb. 2007.
"The Gypsies Come to Town," Arabesques, online and in print 2007. www.arabesquespress.org.
"A Steamy Story," www.longstoryshort.com, April, 2006.
"The Vulgari Connection," North American Review, 2006.
"Surveying the Other," Full Circle Journal (Oct. 2003). www.fullcirclejrnl.com
"Soft Targets," Massachusetts Review (Fall 2003).
""I Married a Montser and We Had Kids," Willow Springs #47 (Jan. 2001)
"Woman Walking Backwards," Dimsum #3 (May 2000).
“Appendix Seven,” The Mind’s Eye (Fall, 1999).
“Mr. Nice Guy,” Clackamas Review (Fall, 1999).
“A Song of Heartbreak and Longing,” Willow Springs 39 (Jan. 1997).
“A Visit from the Man in the Gray Suit,” Steelhead Special No. 27 (June 1996).
“One Up,” in Robert Byrne, Ed., Byrne’s Book of Great Pool Stories (N.Y.: Harvest Books, 1995).
“Men,” in E. Goodwin et al., Eds., This Wood Sang Out (Amherst, MA: Literacy Project, 1995).
“The Loyal Wife,” Manoa, June 1995.
“Gong Li Haunts My Dreams,” English Salon, no. 6, 1994. (Beijing, China)
"X," Glimmer Train IX, Spring 1994.
"Any Little Thing," Writer's Forum, Vol. 20, Sept. 1994.
"The Perfectly Round Bagel," in Jane Yolen, Ed., Xanadu, New York: TOR Books, 1993.
"Prized Possessions," Glimmer Train II, i (Nov. 1992.)
"Appetizer" in C. East, Ed., The Flannery O'Connor Award, Selected Stories (Athens: U. Georgia Press, June 1992). Also in W. R. Hanna, C. Cockerton, Eds., The Human Project (Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall Canada, Inc.: 1996); and Literature and Language (New York: McDougal, Littell and Co., 1994).
"Splendid Fall," Contact (Sept. 1989).
"My Escape from Pine Top Hall," Denver Quarterly, XXII, no. 1 1987.
"The Turkey Thieves," in Evalyn P. Gill, Ed., O. Henry Festival Stories, (Greensboro,N.C.: Transverse Press, 1987). 2d Prize.
“Constant Companion," Colorado State Review XI, no.2 (Spring-Summer, 1984).
"Banditos," Colorado State Review X, no.2 (Spring-summer, 1983).
"Demons Come Between Us and the Light," The Long Story I, no. 1 (Spring, 1983).
"There Will Never Be Another You," Madison Review IV, no. 2, and V, no. 1 (Winter, 1983).
"Jogging," The Little Balkans Review I, no. 2 (Winter 1980-81).
"Black Bear at Lake Ecstasy," Playgirl (August 1980).
"The Making of the Chalices," Portland State Review (May 1978).
"The Oedipus Transaction," ROM Publications (March 1978).
"Jesus, the Kidnapper," Colorado State Review V, no. 2 (Fall 1977).
"Flood No. 14," The Little Magazine XI, no. 1 (Spring 1977).
"Matching Parts," Dark Horse no. 8 (Summer 1976). (Nominated for best of small presses.)
"A Butchering," Motel/No Vacancy I, no.1 (Winter 1975).
"Rabbitskin," Kansas Quarterly (Summer 1974). Selected for Honorable Mention in M. Foley's Best Short Stories of 1974.
"How We Love the Movies," Barn Dream Press, Boston (May 1974). Story, printed on a broadside.
"Ajax in Richmond," Epoch (Spring 1974).
"Three Defenses," The Little Magazine (Winter 1970). Poem.
"Fenner's Chickens," Midwest Quarterly (Winter 1971). Poem.
"True Love and Friendship at the Drake," Poor Richard's Almanac, supp. to Daily Collegian (Dec. 13, 1973).
"The Existentialist Who Was," a story, "Wine Song," and "How I Got Jealous One Morning, Thinking," poems, in Peter Neuramont, Ed., Great Lakes Anthology No. 2 (Yellow Springs, OH: Antioch Press, 1965).
Articles:
“"Telling the Stories of the Disappeared," Willow Springs 50 (June 2002), pp. 37-39, review of A. Kuo's Lipstick.
"Hong Kong Streets," www.asianreviewofbooks.com/hk, review of Jason Wordie's Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island. Posted July 2002.
"The Cool Life and the Death of the Dragon Lady," Massachusetts Review XLII, no. 3 (Autumn 2001) pp. 413-438.
"The International Mind of Xu Xi," www.asianreviewofbooks.com.hk , review of History's Fiction. Posted June 2, 2001.
"An Apologia for Pedophiles," www.frigatezine.com , review of R. Linmark Zamora's Rolling the R's. Posted May 2001.
"An Immodest Proposal," www.frigatezine.com , humor, posted July 2001.
"A Surefire Guide to Catching the Big Ones," Hampshire Life, April 11, 2001.
A series of five articles on American writers for teachers of English Literature who are not native speakers will be available on the web site for the U. S. Information Agency, S. E. Asia division, fall, 1999, and later. Writers covered include: Alice Walker, John Cheever, Amy Tan, Bienvenidos N. Santos, and William Carlos Williams.
"Back to Beijing," Hampshire Life, Daily Hampshire Gazette, June 26, 1998.
"The Mood in Hong Kong," Prividence Journal, May 18, 1997.
Back to Beijing,” Hampshire Life, Daily Hampshire Gazette, forthcoming.
“The Mood in Hong Kong,” Providence Journal, May 18, 1997.
“Hong Kong Jitters,” Hampshire Life, supplement to Daily Hampshire Gazette (March 14, 1997).
“The New China,” Transpacific. (Scheduled, 1995, then withdrawn). Available.
"China's Reformers," Toward Freedom (Nov., 1990).
"The Importance of Academic Training," in Joseph M. Moxley, Ed., Creative Writing in America, National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.
"Revision--Seeing Twice, Seeing Double," in "Creative Writers Report: Mastering the Craft," in Moxley, Ed., op. cit.
"Chinese Folktales," Contact (Spring 1987).
"The Riddle of the Striped Bass," New England Monthly (Sept. 1987).
"Jay Neugeboren: The Changing Face of a Novelist and His Work," Contact (Winter 1986).
"Madness and History: Jay Neugeboren's Second Life," Literary Review XXV, no.1 (Fall 1981).
"The Stolen Jew: An Exemplary Novel," Valley Advocate (June 17, 1981). Review, interview.
"What Do Men Want?" Valley Advocate (June 17, 1981). Rev. W. O'Rourke's Idle Hands, and L. Michael's The Men's Club.
"An Exile's Laughter," Valley Advocate (June 10, 1981). Rev. M. Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Laughable Loves.
"Marilynne Robinson's Quicksilver Mind," Valley Advocate (April 15, 1981). Rev. Housekeeping; interview.
"Motoring in Massachusetts," Amherst News (April 17, 1981). Satire.
"Winter Madness, Or, Games You Love to Hate," Leisure, supp. to Greenfield Recorder (Dec. 31, 1980). Essay.
"Code of the Wild," Leisure, Greenfield Recorder (Nov. 20, 1980). Essay.
"A Fur-bearing Trout, a Four-pound Mosquito, and Other Wonders of New England," Leisure, Greenfield Recorder (July 2, 1980). Essay.
"The Benefits of Bird-watching," Leisure, Greenfield Recorder (July 2, 1980). Essay.
Rev. of Curt Johnson's novels and criticism, The American Book Review I, no. 6 (March-April, 1979).
Reviews of poetry and fiction by New England small presses appeared in Stony Hills I nos. 1, 2, and 3 and II, nos. 1 and 2.
"Nuclear Power Hazards," Valley Advocate IV no. 4 (Sept. 15, 1976). Rev. of R. Webb's Accident Hazards of Nuclear Power Plants.
"The Best of the Small Presses, Vol. II," Valley Advocate (May 2, 1977). Rev.
"On Creativity," Margins, nos. 28, 29, 30. Rev.
"In Search of Educational Sanity," Z: Forum of the Journal for Contemporary Thought, I no. 1 (Jan. 1972). Essay.
"Ishmael Reed's 'I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra,'" Explicator XXX. no. 81. Essay.
"Gide and Henry James: Suffering, Responsibility and Death," Midwest Quarterly (Summer 1968). Essay.
A series of reviews on contemporary writers (Ishmael Reed, N.O. Brown, Alan Watts, Buckminster Fuller) appeared in News From Nowhere, Dekalb, IL, 1969- 70.
Speeches:
"A Recipe for Courage: Or, Writers Can't Be Cowards", Vermont College, Jan. 5 2006.
“The Nuances of Voice,” The Workshop at Newport, Oregon (July, 1998).
"The Inner Critic: How Good Does Good Have to Be?" and "The Novel as Cookbook, Diary, Exchange of Letters . . .: Contemporary Writers Retool Old Strategies." The Workshop at Linfield, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR, July 28, 1993.
"Marketplace Excesses and Alternatives to Mainstream Publishing," Berkshire Atheneum, May 15, 1993.
"The Future of the Novel," Faculty Lecture Series, Trinity College, April 8, 1992.
"What's A Novel About?" The Workshop at Newport, July 25, 1990.
"What Keeps a Writer Writing?" Kansas State College at Emporia, Emporia, KS, Feb. 22, 1990.
"What Isn't an `Influence?'" kickoff lecture, The Workshop at Newport, July 24, 1989, Newport, OR.
"Writing on Ground Zero," kickoff lecture, The Workshop at Newport, July 25, 1988, Newport, OR.
"Human Prospects in Contemporary Fiction (Towards a Survival Mythology.)" Keynote address, Summer Writers' Workshop, UMass/Amherst, Memorial Hall, July 17, 1981.
"New Ideas About Human Nature: Is Peace Possible?" As part of the Song and Substance Program, Aug. 6, 1981. Nagle's Bakery, Northampton, MA.
Appearances and Readings:
Vermont College, Dec. 29, 2005; Catskill Reading Society, July 4, 1998; Oregon Writers Workshop, July 18, 1998; Univ. Massachusetts, Oct. 2, 1993, "Small is Beautiful," on alternatives to mainstream publishing; Linfield College, McMinnville, OR, July 30, 1993, as part of the Workshop at Linfield; Berkshire Atheneum, Pittsfield, MA, as member of panel on publishing alternatives, May 15, 1993; University of Massachusetts, April 18, 1993, as judge of Harvey Swados Fiction Prize; University of Massachusetts, April 3, 1991; Broadside Books, Northampton, MA, April 2, 1991; Koeppel Student Center, Trinity College, Nov. 11,1990; The Workshop at Newport,July 18, 1990; Kansas State College at Emporia, Feb. 23, 1990; Goliard Book Shop, Amherst, MA, Oct. 6, 1989; The Workshop at Newport, July 24, 26, Newport, OR; Westfield High School, Westfield, MA, May 4, 1989; Chautauqua Writers, Chautauqua, NY, Aug. 18, 1988; The Workshop at Newport, Aug. 9, 1988, Newport, OR: Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, workshop and reading, Feb. 27-28, 1988; Clackamus Community College, Portland, OR, workshop and reading, March 1, 1988; Portland Comm. Coll., Portland, OR, reading, March 3, 1988; Mount Holyoke College, April 22, 1986; Carnegie Library, Turners Falls, MA, Feb 15, 1986; Jones Library, Amherst, MA, Jan. 22, 1986; Emerging Writers Series, Art Institute, Portland, OR, Nov. 20, 1985, including three classes; Broadside Books, Northampton, MA, Oct. 1980; Coonamessett Inn, for Market Books, Falmouth, MA, 1980; Zeizing Brothers Bookstore, Willimatic, CT, Sept. 1980; Broadside Bookstore, Oct. 1978; Roger Williams College, Bristol, RI, lecture- demonstration in magazine production and fiction reading; Hampshire College, Dec. 1976; Western Mass Arts and Crafts Festival, Northampton, MA, May 1977; and UMass MFA Writers Reading program, by invitation, twice; judged high school literary publications and gave readings at American Community College, Springfield, MA, 1978; judged fiction competition and gave readings, lectures, during the week of April 11-17 as part of Colorado State University's Arts Week Program, Fort Collins, CO., 1979.
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