1. Book contract from State Univ. of New York Press for The Anthropology of Pornography, to be published in their Postmodern Culture Series. This is an ethnography of sex workers in Los Angeles only, a study of the sub-culture in L.A., as an athropologist would study any culture, partially participant-observer. It starts off with my own experiences as being a cameraman for people like Al Borda, Max Hardcore, Captain Bob, etc., and the people I met, talked with, became friends with,
and then leads to interviews with various people who work as talent and directors in the biz (and what they do outside the biz in real life). The book is not finished and will nneed vetting by peer review, so I don't expect this book to come out until late 2009 or even early 2010.
2. Agreemets with Borgo Press to publish two more collections of erotic stories, the short novel Seven Women (previously only available in a special edition from Bookspan's Venus Book Club) and a collection of essays called Auto/Ethnographies -- Sex, Death, Love, and Independent Filmmaking.
3. Essay, "Like the Portholes in a Jules Verne Submaries - Footnotes in the Novels of Paul Auster, Nicholson Baker, and Mark Z. Danielewski" in the journal Problems in Lietrary Genres from the Univ of Lodz in Poland.
It was accepted the same day that Critqiue turned it down the seconmd time (the revision). I have to change the referncing style for their journal, which uses a British-based style guide.
4. I'll add this as it is most likley going to happen -- talkling with McFarland & Co, about Carver's Women - Role, Place, and Identity of the Feminine in the Short Stories of Raymond Carver. They loved the proposala and just need to see a chapter.
5. Need to revise a review esay on Vollmann's new book, Riding Toward Everywhere, for Modern Language Studies.
Meanwhile, The Watermelon is stll in the last legs of post-production. LightSong Films is trying to get together some quick investor funds to film my campty horror low budget Hardboiled Zoimbie Detective (origianlly pubished in Dybukk Press' Badass Horror as a novella) while dealing with financing, with Hand Picked Films, for Statons. And Debbie is still dealing wth financing for Mommy vs. the Evil Bank Robbers. Right now, I feel very distant and aliented from the whole film financing process and Hollywood in general.
I have set some end of the year goals -- wrap in the Star Trek critical monography by Xmas (or at least New Year's) and have the new novel, The Agent, ready for the agent when NY publishing opens back up for business in January.
Oh -- and the Carver biography is still out there, so with all the New Yorker stuff on Carver lately, will hoepfully have an offer in when things open back up there on the East Coast.
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