SUMMER 2010
Photo: In Tokyo with Harajuku girl
I'm taking part in LACMA's Cell Phone Stories
New Facebook Page for The Sadness of Sex
Japanese readers, hello! こんにちは、日本の読者 BY film & vid samples here
Follow me (on all sorts of topics) at Huffington Post
Video teaser for My Brother Is Driving Me Crazy, a project about me + my twin brother. New Odd Couple?
My article on cellphone lit (Japan,Twitter) in The Independent (UK). Longer version in Salon.
Even further on cellphone-lit.
My first visit to Brazil: wow. A glimpse.
A fine last summer: Istanbul, London (oh
London!), Venice, including a long day at grand Simcic winemaker's
in Slovenia. Saw Venice + Istanbul biennials.
My little Argentina: wine, beef, and Eva Peron's tomb at Huffington Post.
GOL! in (sadly esrtwhile) Culture + Travel on soccer passion in Madrid. Super photos!!
The Sadness of Sex, film version, at Spike.com.
Konichiwa, Japanese readers! NASTYbook is out from Shinchosa. Translated of course by Prof. Motoyuki Shibata. Serialized in Japan over cell phones too. And Hakusuisha has just reissued The Sadness of Sex in paperback.
From Blurbville:
"Barry Yourgrau's work makes me shudder." Lemony Snicket.
"I can never remember my dreams, so Barry Yourgrau's stories are a pretty good substitute" -- David Byrne
"Very funny...and magnificently nasty" -- Neil Gaiman.
Hear Nasty ("oooh yuck!") interview on NPR Weekend Edition -Sunday
Ponder all too personal Nasty essay at www.powells.com
And cackle at Suicidegirls interview (adult content)
Arigatou, Tokyo! Yomiuri Shimbun Online writes about cell-phone lit in Japan, incl Sinchosha Keitai Bunko fare (Japanese readers only)
Cell Phone Stories ("Keitai Stories"), mini-tales first serialized over Japanese cell phones. Published by Shinchosha (available only in Japanese).
Read some fiction at suicidegirls
Check chat with Gus Van Sant.
Salon Audio & NPR offer an earful of stories.
View multimedia noir-story "At The Neck".
Read some eerie travel tales from Haunted Traveller, in salon.
Or puzzle over text for Amazon.com on the "real story" behind Haunted Traveller here
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