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Thursday, May 20, 2010

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Portrait by Akemi Shinohara
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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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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

Series

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  • The Devil Dearly Loved Renounces Evil (23)
  • A Crippled Boy Outdoors (18)
  • The Life and Adventures of Randy Mesmer (18)
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  • small stories for hopeless moments. (11)
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  • Three-Coin Prose (8)
  • Tokyo Notes (8)
  • The Eternal and Irrevocable Law of Karma Improv (5)

Rescue Masako!

The Rescue of Princess Masako: an optimistic fiction.

Links

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  • Dancing with the Devil in the City of Angels
  • Hitotoki: a narrative map of Tokyo
  • Paul Wirhun, Eggman
  • Doorknobs That Lock
  • A Journey Round My Skull
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