News & Updates
SPRING 2008

Photo: BY with Tokyo Harajuku girl

Much ado on Barry's writing for cell phones in Japan. See new J-BARRY section of blog here, for news of that and other Japan-related doings.

Check out Barry's Brain Flakes at Uber.com, for travel, gluttony, politics, and strange fictions....

The Sadness of Sex, the movie BY stars in, based on his book, is up for free at Spike.com.

Good for gifts anytime: Yet Another NASTYbook: MiniNasties. With savage little poems, dialogues, and tiny tales of torment. For kids 10 and up. Illustrated by meisterly Neil Swaab.

Who said "Barry Yourgrau's work makes me shudder..."? Lemony Snicket, that's who.

Check out excellent write-up, Sarcastic and Cynical Stories for Kids?at excellent Blogcritics.com, by its most excellent editor, Eric Berlin.

Konichiwa, Japanese readers! NASTYbook is out in Japan from Shinchosa Publ. Translated of course by esteemed Prof. Motoyuki Shibata. Check out the cover! Shinchosha always does a fab job with BY books.

Now in handy paperback: NASTYbook, BY's first extravaganza of dark mischief for 10 year olds & up. He did the audiobook too. Lotta Nasty stuff at nastybook.com

And don't forget Another NASTYbook: The Curse of the Tweeties. It's one demented novel that turns into manga!

"So wickedly fun to read" (TimeOutNY for Kids)

Hear BY's Nasty ("oooh yuck!") interview on NPR Weekend Edition -Sunday

"Very funny...and magnificently nasty" -- Neil Gaiman

"Visceral and disturbing, and exactly the sort of thing many kids would enjoy reading, even as many parents would find it inappropriate or upsetting..." -- Teenreads.com

"Some young people may like this...but if they do, they should be locked up." -- Metapsychology Online Review

Ponder Barry's all too personal essay at www.powells.com

And cackle at his Suicidegirls interview (adult content)

Arigatou, Tokyo! Yomiuri Shimbun Online writes about cell-phone lit in Japan, incl Barry's new Sinchosha Keitai Bunko fare (Japanese readers only)

Beat the far-eastern heat with Cell Phone Stories ("Keitai Stories"), Barry's mini-tales first serialized over Japanese cell phones. Published by Shinchosha (available only in Japanese). Shinchosha is pubbing NASTYbook in January 2007 -- after first serializing over i-mode too!

Read some of Barry's fraught-fun fiction at suicidegirls

Check his chat with Gus Van Sant.

IFILM keeps running The Sadness of Sex, the film Barry stars in with Peta Wilson based on his book of stories (Registration req.). Here's an oldie but goodie interview in Hollywood Industry

Salon Audio & NPR offer an earful of stories.

View multimedia noir-story "At The Neck".

Read some eerie travel tales from Barry's book, Haunted Traveller, in salon.

Or puzzle over his piece for Amazon.com on the "real story" behind Haunted Traveller here

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