Metrophilias

It looks like my this collection will be out around September, from Better Non Sequitur press. Many of the stories have been published individually, but I think the collection will be greater than the sum of its parts.

The table of contents is as follows:

1. Athens
2. Barcelona
3. Benares
4. Berlin
5. Carthage
6. Dublin
7. Edinburgh
8. Florence
9. Gwangju
10. Havana
11. Istanbul
12. Jerusalem
13. Kiev
14. Kinshasa
15. London
16. Luxembourg
17. Manila
18. Mexico City
19. Moscow
20. New York
21. Oslo
22. Paris
23. Peking
24. Quito
25. Rome
26. Seville
27. Sybaris
28. Sydney
29. Thebes
30. Tokyo
31. Uberlândia
32. Vancouver
33. Warsaw
34. Xi’an
35. Yerevan
36. Zürich

 

Le fantastique des fétichistes

This anthology, edited by Estelle Valls de Gomis, is finally out. It has three stories of mine, Metrophilias, translated into French in it. The TOC is very impressive, including some interesting authors such as Jean Lorrain and Eugène Mouton. It’s a beautiful book, and definitely worth checking out if you read French.

Here is the blurb:

La littérature fantastique est fréquemment mâtinée d’érotisme, mais elle donne aussi très souvent lieu à l’élaboration de fantasmes plus ou moins morbides ayant trait au fétichisme.
L’on y rencontre entre autres des collectionneurs frénétiques, des amoureux transis, des obsédés du pied, du sein, ou de la cuisse, des amateurs d’art ou d’absinthe et des affamés du maroquin. C’est cette propension à se passionner jusqu’à la névrose pour des objets, des lieux ou des personnages – thèmes que l’on retrouve notamment chez Théophile Gautier – que nous allons explorer ici à travers de délicieux voyages dans des textes fantastiques, érotiques, ou simplement oniriques ayant en commun de faire la part belle à cette joie obsessionnelle qui naît de la proximité ou de la possession de la chose adorée.
Cette anthologie vous entraînera à la suite d’auteurs parfois peu connus ou oubliés mais toujours talentueux, comme Joséphin Péladan, Pierre Louÿs, Charles Asselineau ou Jean Lorrain, aux côtés de nos chers maîtres, Guy de Maupassant ou Théophile Gautier, sans oublier le suave Oscar Wilde et Joris Karl Huysmans pour ne citer que quelques noms parmi ces nombreux explorateurs de l’interdit que nous vous proposons de redécouvrir.
Ces figures du dix-neuvième siècle seront accompagnées d’auteurs contemporains au talent confirmé comme Charlotte Bousquet, Armand Cabasson et Brendan Connell, dignes héritiers des auteurs sus-cités. Le fétichisme, comme la valeur, n’attendant pas le nombre des années, ils seront accompagnés des toutes jeunes mais prometteuses plumes de Marc Kiska et Marie Angèle Prétot, ressuscitant à leur manière le romantisme noir, et de la lumineuse Léonor Lara, à l’écriture si richement évocatrice.

Existere: Metrophilia: Peking

My metrophilia story Peking has just been published in the Canadian magazine Existere.

Kaleidotrope 4

Just received issue 4 of Kaleidotrope, which has my story Rome (a Metrophilia) in it. It is a zine a bit (in my opinion) similar to Electric Velocipede.

The complete TOC is as follows:

Fiction
“Molting” by Andrew Howard
“Word Count: Negative 1″ by Ashley Arnold
“The Three Wishes of Miles Vander” by Bill Ward
“Premature” by Mark Rich
“Paradise” by Adam Lowe
“White Sheets” by Mike Driver
“Rome (a Metrophilia)” by Brendan Connell
“Half-Sneeze Johnny” by Kurt Kirchmeier
“My Cthulhu Story” (a comic) by G.W. Thomas
“Furrier” by Flavian Mark Lupinetti
“She’s a Hearth” by Paul Abbamondi
“The Life and Times of a Hungry World, Told Briefly” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
“The Transparency” by Michael Obilade

Poetry
“Househunting on Mars” by Bonita Kale
“Praise for What I Don’t Know” by Thomas Zimmerman
“Cracked Shells” by Beth Langford
“Spring in the Lab” by Alyce Wilson
“Farm School” by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
“A Manual For Good Housekeeping in the Age of Global Warming” by Miranda Gaw
“Ivanikha” by Dana Koster
Two Poems by Franz K. Baskett
“Worldviews on a Desert Trail” by Jason Huskey
“Towards the Afterlife” by Aurelio Rico Lopez III

Nonfiction
“Who Goes There,” Betty Ragan’s interview with Marc Schuster and Tom Powers
“The Rise of the Fembots: A Brief Introduction to Female Android Sexuality in Film” by Eric Borer

 

The Columbia Review

Got some copies of the latest issue of the Columbia Review in the mail, which contains my Metrophilia story Manila.

Le Fantastique de Fétichistes

A new book called Le Fantastique de Fétichistes is available for pre-order here.

It is edited by Estelle Valls de Gomis and has I think three short stories of mine from the Metrophilia series translated into French. I haven’t seen the TOC, but it does include J.K. Huysmans and Joséphin Péladan, so I am sure it is a cool book.

 

Carthage

My story Carthage, is up here at Pequin.org.

Pits

My story Pits is up here, at Pequin.org. It was originally published in an anthology called See You Next Tuesday from Better Non Sequitur press and is part of my Metrophilia series. Better Non Sequitur is currently looking for submissions for their second volume in this series—click on my link and go to the bottom to be directed to their homepage. 

Diet Soap

I recieved some copies of the new zine Diet Soap today, which contain my very short story Xi’an (a Metrophilia). This is a nice looking production and I recommend checking it out.

The entire table of contents is as follows:

“Diary of a Nonsworn” by Holly K. Hein

“Observer Effects” by Tim Pratt

“The Basement, Borges” by Darin C. Bradley

“A Brief History of Cakes and Cake Making” by Eric Weiskott

“Evelyn Manesta and the Resistance to Modern Photographic Surveillance” by Bill Brown

“A Dead Man in Internet Images” by J. A. Tyler

“From Georges Bataille to Jesus Christ in Four Moves” by Ben Segal

“Xi’an (a Metrophilia)” by Brendan Connell

Another Metrophilia, or are you ready for the cheque?

I was doing a google search for the word ‘metrophilia,’ as I have recently seen a number of hits on my blog with that search term. I was just curious if people were searching for ‘my’ metrophilias, or something else. Aside from discovering that there is a new site called metrophilia.net (sigh), I also ran across an old review of some of my pieces here (wherein I am called Bernard Connell), which contains this comment:

“…in Mexico City a man has sex with his perfect woman, a robot, who has ‘breasts like strawberries floating in bowls of milk’, possibly the most revolting visual image of many in the story.”   

Well, I do try.