Literary Nonfiction. A mad mix of bohemian memoirs, polemics, exposes, roadtrips, fish essays, screeds on translating and linguistics, some Dylan crit, and an epic jaunt upon the rails make this collection a gritty, edgy, colorful romp through the raw imagination of America's greatest gar advocate.

Author City: CONWAY, AR USA

Mark Spitzer is a professor of creative writing in the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He has translated books by Jean Genet (THE GENET TRANSLATIONS, Polemic Press), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (THE CHURCH, Green Integer), Arthur Rimbaud (From Absinthe to Abyssinia, Creative Arts), Georges Bataille (The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille, Dufour Editions; Divine Filth, Creation Books) and Blaise Cendrars (Films Without Images, Green Integer). Spitzer's novels include CHUM (Zoland Books), CHODE! (Six Gallery Press), and BOTTOM FEEDER (Creative Arts). He has also published the following nonfiction collections: PROZE ATTACK: SELECTED ESSAYS, REVIEWS, POLEMICS, RANTS AND RED- HEADED STEP-FICTIONS 2004-2010 (Six Gallery Press), Season of the Gar (University of Arkansas Press), Writer in Residence (University of New Orleans Press), AFTER THE ORANGE GLOW (Monkey Puzzle Press), and RIDING THE UNIT (Six Gallery Press). Spitzer has published two volumes of poetry as well. A former editor of the legendary EXQUISITE CORPSE literary franchise, he now edits the literary annual TOAD SUCK REVIEW. Spitzer has starred in the "Alligator Gar" episode of Animal Planet's River Monsters series and is an avid fisherman.

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