Innovative writing, innovative music, innovative painting, innovative theatre, innovative film.
Music
Shostakovich, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Gong, Frank Zappa, Pere Ubu, A Tomato a Day, Guru Guru, Kraan, Grandpaboy.
Movies
Fellini, Bunuel.
Television
The Prisoner.
Books
Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe, Steve Tomasula, William Gillespie, Frederick Mark Kramer, Michael Collins, Matthew Roberson, George Chambers, John Barth, Kenneth Patchen, Arno Schmidt, Samuel Beckett, Wolfgang Borchert, Eugene Ionesco, Donald Barthelme, James Joyce, Italo Calvino.
Heroes
Kenneth Patchen, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, Eugene Ionesco and Arno Schmidt.
Eckhard Gerdes is deeply saddened by the passing of Raymond Federman, a brilliant writer, a beautiful soul, a gentle mentor and a true friend. Posted at 6:46 PM Oct 13 view more
Eckhard Gerdes (born 1959) is an American novelist and editor. He earned his MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He is the author of eight published novels:
Projections [1986, Depth Charge Press]
Ring in a River [1989, Depth Charge Press]
Truly Fine Citizen [1992, Highlander Press]
Cistern Tawdry [2002, Fugue State Press]
Przewalski's Horse [2007, Red Hen Press]
The Million-Year Centipede; or, Liquid Structures [2007,
Raw Dog Screaming Press]
Nin and Nan [2008, included in the Bizarro Starter Kit
(Blue), Bizarro Press]
My Landlady the Lobotomist [2008, Raw Dog Screaming Press]
His work, often darkly humorous, frequently crosses boundaries of fictional technique, ignoring time, space, cause and effect at will, in the service of stories of individuals struggling to transcend fear and limitation.
Noteworthy reviews of his work have appeared in Rain Taxi, Notre Dame Review, and Review of Contemporary Fiction among many others.
Eckhard Gerdes is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, a series of books often consisting of ambitious Festschrifts on a single writer (e.g. John Barth, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe). He has also written on modern and post-modern literature for American Book Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Hyde Park Review of Books, and other magazines.
His novel "White Bungalows" was a finalist for both the Starcherone Prize and for the Blatt Prize. For "Cistern Tawdry," Gerdes was nominated for Georgia Author of the Year in the Fiction Category. Gerdes has twice been the recipient of the Richard Pike Bissell Creative Writing Award, is listed in Contemporary Authors, 2000 Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century, International Authors and Writer's Who's Who, and Who's Who in Writers, Editors, and Poets, and is a member of PEN USA and AWP.
He lives in the Chicago area; he has three children.
Forthcoming event:
July 10, 7 pm, Quimby's Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
For more details and information on Scuff Mud events, go to www.myspace.com/scuffmud. For more information on the Journal of Experimental Fiction, go to www.experimentalfiction.com and to www.myspace.com/experimentalfiction. Thank you!
Who I'd like to meet: Samuel Beckett, Kenneth Patchen and Arno Schmidt!
My debut novel, The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke, has just launched. If you get a chance I'd be grateful if you'd go to my profile to find out more. The story's about Dada, art and artists, and the attempt to instigate revolution by means of art.
Chicks dig scars, everyone knows that, right? Meet Severence DeSnappio, a man who creates ‘fake’ injuries for desperate clients. He’ll get you a stab wound, shot gun blast, snowboarding injury - but a bite from a great white shark?
Set in Miami, Chicks Dig scars is a lyrical, Lynchian mix of dream logic and hard boiled detection.
OUT on June 05, 2009 - "One listen to this musical outfit from Southern Russia known as Vespero was all it took to make me begin thinking about the great things that must be happening in Russia…" - by Ryan Sparks, Sea Of Tranquility. RAIG is proud to announce Vespero "Surpassing All Kings" (R041, CD), the second studio album by psychedelic/progressive/space rock band from Astrakhan.
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DICE, “just call it cosmic prog” with their 15th CD “Versus Without Versus, Endpart” and their 2nd DVD “A Long Cosmic Trip” thanks very much for frienship. From germany - best regards! .
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