FUTURE WORKS

(1) A DIATRIBE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (60,000 words)

(2) BEING AND OTHER MISUNDERSTANDINGS. A collection of stories, including, among others, “The Guests Were Gathered at the Gatzes,” “On the Way There,” “The  Man Who Backslid Into Being.” In near-final form.

(3) THE MIRACLE (semi-fictional autobiography, 55-60,000 words)

THE NOVEL “GOGOL’S HEAD: THE MISADVENTURES OF A STOLEN SKULL” IS SET IN THE SOVIET UNION, 1931. 

The Venus of Willendorf, Stone Age Figurine of the Baba Goddess

Carving of gollywog (Sheila-na-gig). On corbel of (Christian) Church of St. Mary and St. David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England

1990s Graffiti at “The Devil’s Apartment,” Moscow (from the Mikhail Bulgakov novel “Master and Margarita”)

Dismemberment of Siberian Yakut Shaman; Painting by Yakut Artist Timofei Stepanov

New England Headstones