Readings and Performances and Other News

I have a piece, "Loose Tiles," on mrbellersneighborhood.com

Also, if you go to mrbellersneighborhood and search my name, you should be able to locate two other stories, if you feel like it.

And I have a diary from my time at Club Med, "Club Existential Dread," running all week on mcsweeneys.net

Read earlier entries below for information about the Mystery of Henry James's Neutering.
- posted by Jonathan @ 10:08 AM

 
Readings and Performances and Other 'News'

I have a piece, what I call a memNoir, on mrbellersneighborhood.com. It's called: Loose Tiles, and to find it, click here.

And next week (November 17- 21), my diary of my time at Club Med will run every day as a serial of sorts on mcsweeneys.net. That piece is called: Club Existential Dread.

And, a first for me, I will be publishing someone else's work: On this site I will soon be posting a young writer/scholar's fascinating expose about the mystery of Henry James's testicles. This issue of what exactly happened to the great writer's testicles has long been a sore spot for James scholars, as well as for James.

I alluded to this mystery in my novel, The Extra Man, and in my memoir, What's Not to Love?, and a reader of these works, the young scholar/writer in question, has gone to great lengths to clear up this testicular mystery, and soon on this website you will see the results of his labor. As a tease to keep you interested, the young scholar has unearthered evidence that Hemingway may have somewhat based his neutered hero of The Sun Also Rises on James.

I should mention that the rumor I heard long ago, and which I referenced in my books, is that James burned his testicles and that this accounted for the style of his prose, which nonetheless took a lot of balls to produce. So please check this site periodically, Jonathanames.com, for this shocking bit of literary history and mystery, which I hope to publish imminently. Thank you.

- posted by Jonathan @ 5:34 AM