Archive for the “literature” category
Spreadeagle
by Travis Jeppesen on February 24, 2013
A review of Kevin Killian’s new novel Spreadeagle, at Bookforum.
Satanica
by Travis Jeppesen on November 29, 2012
The premiere issue of Satanica, a limited-edition mag edited by Gio Black Peter and Christopher Stoddard, will include an excerpt from my novel The Suiciders, forthcoming from Semiotext(e) in 2013, as well as an interview I conducted with Susanne Oberbeck (…)
Call for papers: Aliens & Anorexia: A Chris Kraus Symposium
by Travis Jeppesen on November 28, 2012
The Critical Writing in Art & Design programme at the Royal College of Art is pleased to announce the first conference on the work of the American writer Chris Kraus, to take place in London on 13-14 March 2013. Alongside (…)
The Names
by Travis Jeppesen on October 9, 2011
The Names is a section from The Suiciders, a novel. Read it here.
Longitude’s Necklace
by Travis Jeppesen on June 4, 2011
“Her heart is boundless, bleeding. She is the porn star mother of us all, the whore, and she doesn’t even acknowledge her own presence once the forest threatens to overtake her human-style longing. She dresses in fur and feathers, leaves (…)
Bruce Benderson and Gary Indiana and Eileen Myles
by Travis Jeppesen on April 26, 2011
It doesn’t matter; there is no matter. Memory doesn’t spit out physical objects, all pristine and shiny. If there is such a thing as a truth in writing, about writing, then it’s always located in the roughness around the edges. (…)
Wolf at the Door
by Travis Jeppesen on February 22, 2010
Me reading from Wolf at the Door.
Excerpt from The Suiciders
by Travis Jeppesen on December 10, 2009
The artist must now live in a state of perpetual distraction. Art will be the measure of response to those distractions.
Dicklung & Others reviewed
by Travis Jeppesen on November 16, 2009
My latest poetry collection, Dicklung & Others, has been reviewed at Orange Alert.
The Suiciders
by Travis Jeppesen on November 12, 2009
I’m currently approaching the final phases of The Suiciders, a novel I’ve been working on for the last nine years. Below, you’ll find an excerpt from the final-ish version. Lukas (this was Peter’s name again all of a sudden) got (…)
