If you’re a reader of this site and happen to be around Japan this coming week, please do come and say hi. I will be giving several talks in Japan. (If you read Japanese, this might help you find the events.) What I know of the itinerary is this: Dec 2 Nagonuma (rural Hokkaido) [...]
I am going on a short reading tour this month with my old friend, Jeff Miller, the writer behind Canada’s best and longest-running zine, Ghost Pine. Jeff and I are celebrating the release of brand new anthologies of the old issues of our zines. We will also have the pleasure of reading with other old [...]
Fittingly, my very last events promoting this book will take place back in my home state of Florida and in my old city of Miami. I’m looking forward to cafe cubano and cheap black beans and rice and swimming in the ocean at midnight in December — some of the best things about Miami. In [...]
I have finally wrapped up my east and west coast tours and all my local events in San Francisco for the book — just in time to go on tour with my band, BLACK RAINBOW. Yes, its a pretty hectic year. Reading tour turned out to be one of the most fun things I’ve ever [...]
Here’s the recent sfbg cover story on freight hopping writers and photographers… Outside of a small Central Florida town, I hopped my first freight train in spring 1993, in a place that seemed even then to be somehow outside of time. My first train sat on a siding behind a drive-in theater along old Highway [...]