Other Projects
The Writhing Society
The Writhing Society was a salon/class devoted to writing with constraints. It met at Proteus Gowanus, The Commons on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Public Library, and online. It was open to anyone interested in language and serious play. We explored constraints invented by the Oulipo and others, and invented some of our own. Tom La Farge kept a blog recording some of our experiments:
View The Writhing Society Blog
Proteotypes
Proteotypes began as the publishing arm of the wonderful Proteus Gowanus Gallery, now history. Many of our books were imaginative translations into print of some event or project that happened at the gallery. We favored unexpected juxtapositions in our publications. Our pamphlet series of experimental writing, the Libellulae, was printed in house and hand-sewn.
Literary Consultant / Lead Producer - The Pilot Who Crashed the Party
At the beginning of 2024 I was visiting my publisher in Los Angeles when I was introduced to the actor and director Paul Sand, who had just had his play The Pilot Who Crashed the Party produced in a workshop version. Paul asked me to read the script because he wasn't entirely happy with it. I did, sent him some notes and told him I wanted to be his editor. We spent the next six months rewriting it together. I was very enthusiastic about the new version and said I wanted to help make the play happen. We succeeded in interesting two producers, one in New York and one in London, and decided to go with the London one, Glass Half Full Productions.
The play will open August 30, 2027 at the Greenwich Theater in Greenwich, London.