Guttersnipe Das

Hymns and Homosex. Fantasies and Feuilletons. Stories, Essays, Prose Poems and Assorted Devotions.

Monday, August 28, 2006


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    Guttersnipe Das
    Tiruvannamalai, India
    guttersnipe: 1. a street urchin, a person of low breeding. 2. a gatherer of refuse from street gutters. das: (Sanskrit)1. servant, slave, devotee
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    Contact:

    Raised in New Hampshire. Heart belongs to India. Narrowly survived a decade in Tokyo. Currently wandering the Earth.

    jthanmack@yahoo.co.in

    I am working now to create a book of stories and essays. Suggestions, criticism and support of any kind are very welcome.

    Published & Forthcoming

    • Autoportrait: Upon Returning to India, forthcoming in Quarter After Eight
    • "The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked" is the title story of an anthology of fiction about disability forthcoming from Circo Puntos Press.
    • "Meditación Metta para Ligar Cueros" (Spanish translation by Rico Noguchi) in Asobi NY
    • "The Myth of Single Parenthood" in Jonathan
    • "Naked in Sweden" in Minus Tides
    • "Just Interesting" in Biostories
    • "Recently, At Orgies" in Zymbol
    • "The Heart of the Farm" in Green Mountains Review
    • "Love in No Time" (Manifesto #3) in Eleven Eleven
    • "Love on a Rampage" (Manifesto #1) and "The Utmost Gentleness" (Manifesto #2) at South Loop Review
    • "Ghost Guide" at qu.ee/r
    • "Pa, Randy and the Sugarhouse Fire" in Zymbol
    • "Psychiatry, Tokyo-style" in Hippocampus
    • "News of My Triumphant Return to India" in Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine
    • "The Complete Apologies" in Jonathan
    • "This Story Contains No Optimism" in Microliterature
    • "Twelve Orchards", "Report. Tokyo 2012", "Tokyo Heart" in Bailliwik
    • "Children in the Invisible World" in RFD
    • "Juice Box" in Epiphany
    • "Louis and His Porn Compassion" in Mary: A Literary Quarterly
    • "The Extinction of Stories" in Gargoyle
    • "Space" in Quarter After Eight #11
    • "Big Help" in Fractured West.
    • "Metta Meditation for Hot Male Action: or, how to practice love in sleazy bars" in RFD
    • "From Above" in Quick Fiction #12
    • "The Joy of Wrong" in Jungle Crows
    • "Transfer at Shinjuku" in The Tokyo Advocate
    • "Life in Tokyo" in FLASH
    • "Val" in Collective Fallout
    • "Radiance" in Collective Fallout
    • #16 and #5 in Hitotoki: A Narrative Map of Tokyo
    • 7 Prose Poems in This New Breed
    • "The Tokyo T-Shirt Oracle" in Japanzine

    Holy Books of Guttersnipe Das

    • Robert Walser, Selected Stories
    • Robert Walser, The Tanners
    • Jose Saramago, All the Names
    • Halldor Laxness, Under the Glacier
    • Grace Paley, The Collected Stories
    • Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
    • Mary Robison, Why Did I Ever
    • Gyula Krudy, Sunflower
    • Clarice Lispector, Selected Cronicas
    • Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works
    • Robert D. Richardson, Biographies (Thoreau, Emerson, Wm James.)
    • William Carlos Williams, Imaginations
    • Luis Cernuda, Written on Water
    • Gary Young, No Other Life
    • G.V. Desani, All About H.Hatterr
    • Joanna Macy, World As Lover, World As Self
    • Flann O'Brien, At Swim Two Birds
    • Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces
    • Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves
    • Inagaki Taruho, One Thousand and One Second Stories
    • Jim Crace, The Devil's Larder
    • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Strange Pilgrims
    • Lucia Berlin, So Long: Stories
    • Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

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