Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. An American translating punk in Paris living at the infamous Bohemian bookstore Shakespeare & Co. hooks up with a bipolar nymphomaniac who puts him through a mental sausage grinder. Enter the cops, hippy chicks, black hash, crazy old men, a major deluge, and a host of whacko international freaks and street people. Then POW!, the ultimate betrayal. This is the third memoir in an autobiographical series. "The poetry-intoxicated hero of Spitzer's breathless saga runs smack up into history just as she's changing her dress in the now-fabulous Paris of the late 20th century, and the result is electric. His choleric and vivid voice brings to life a story both breathless with life-dew and masterfully vivid, in the lineage of Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac, but in the tradition of Don Quixote, the timeless dreamer headed for the turbulent phantasm of art"—Andrei Codrescu.
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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