Rob Hardin: Bibliography and Writing Bio

• Distorture, Black Ice Books, ISBN: 1-57366-027-2
• Val Demar's Pear, Permeable Press,1996 ISBN 1-882633-22-9
• "Knives for a Narcoleptic," Funeral Party II
• "Crucifixion," The O.J. Anthology, Viking, 1997
• "Anatomy of a Pervert," House Organ, 1997
• "Strictures of the Cinnamon Pavilion," Permeable Press Website, 1997
• "Rills," The Unbearables Portfolio No. 2, Ralph Ackerman, Limited Letterpress Edition (1996)
• "Cadaver-Scan," The Mississippi Review, Web Version, September, 1995 (ed. Frederick Barthleme)
• "Interrogator Frames," Forbidden Acts (Nancy Collins, ed.),
  Avon, October,1995, ISBN 0-380-7915-3
• "diane di prima: MS. 55," in the forthcoming anthology, Crimes of the Beats (Kolm, Feast, ed.)
• "When Sleep Comes Down," and "Gunpowder Come," Avant Pop, (Larry McCaffery, ed.) BIB/FC2, 1993, ISBN 0-932511-72-4
• "Twenty Paradigms," Airfish Anthology, Cat's Eye Press, 1993, ISBN 93-0704-4204
• "Still," Fiction International #22, Sex And Pornography Issue, San Diego State University Press, 1992, ISBN 1-879691-08-6
• "nerve terminals," "fistic hermaphrodites," "microbes" and "Slime-Temples," Storming The Reality Studio, (Larry McCaffery, ed.) Duke University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-8223-1168-2,
• "Feel Track," Future Sex #1, Butterfly Press (formerly Kundalini Publishing), 1992
• "Dressed to Kill Yourself," Postmodern Culture, v.3, n.1, Oxford University Press, 1991, ISSN 1053-1920
• "Definitions For The Dungeon," Black Ice #8 (guest editor, Kathy Acker), Ron Sukenick, 1991, ISSN 1047-515X,
• "Parallel Sonnet," and "Fistic Hermaphrodites," Java Journal, v.1, n.8, Front Publishing Group, 1994
• "Parallel Sonnet," Cups: A Cafè Journal, Maverick Publishing, San Francisco, February, 1994
• "Torn From Me," Cups: A Cafè Journal, Maverick Publishing, San Francisco, September, 1994
• "Rational Velvet: An Interview with Lynne Tillman," Cups: A Cafè Journal, March, 1996
• "Interview with Darius James, Part One", Cups: A Cafè Journal, Maverick Publishing, San Francisco, February, 1994
• "Interview with Darius James, Part Two," Nobodaddies, v.1, n.2, Doug Rice, Pittsburgh, 1994
• "Insectary," Nobodaddies, Vol. 1, No.1, Doug Rice, Pittsburgh, 1994
• "fistic hermaphrodites," "microbes" and "nerve terminals," Mississippi Review, Issues 47-48, 1988, ISSN 0047-7559
• "nerve terminals," Atomic Avenue (Michael Nagula, ed. and German translator), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04287-5
• "Placardland," TAZ, v.1, n.1, New York, 1994
• "Blood and Void: The Fiction of John Shirley", American Book Review, v. 14, n.5, University of Colorado Press, 1992-3, ISSN 0149-9408
• "Death-Trance Eyes: The Short Fiction of Dennis Cooper," American Book Review, v.15, n.5, University of Colorado Press, 1993-4, ISSN 0149-9408
• "Technophilia's Last Wave," American Book Review, v.16, n.1, University of Colorado Press, 1994, ISSN 0149-9408
• "Rise," A Gathering of the Tribes, v.4, n.1, 1994 (Prose Poem Scored For Piano)
• "Windows," Red Tape, Vol. 1, No. 7, Red Tape Publications, 1992
• "I twitch footsteps," Proud Flesh," n.1, Fall 1994
• "After Huysmans," Peau Sensible, v.1, n.4, New York, 1992
• "Twenty-Five Reasons For Liking Horror" Peau Sensible, v.1, n.5, New York, 1993
• "Entertainment, Sensitive Skin, v.2, n.1, New York, 1994
• "Jim Thirlwell Live," Reflex, Issue 23, New Morning Publications, 1992, ISSN 71896-48428
• "A Response to the Humanist Manifesto," Science Fiction Eye, Vol. 1, No. 2, Washington DC, 1987

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Rob Hardin is a writer and studio musician who lives in a potentially lethal sector of the Lower East Side. He has been praised in Downtown, quoted in Mondo 2000, and described in Poets and Writers as "upping the ante" on Kathy Acker. His writing has appeared in Mississippi Review, Fiction International, Postmodern Culture, Future Sex, A Gathering of the Tribes, American Book Review, Red Tape, Black Ice, Puck, and Cups, and in the anthologies Avant Pop, Atomic Avenue, Storming The Reality Studio, Forbidden Acts (Avon), and in the forthcoming Crimes of the Beats (ed. Ron Kolm). Currently at work on his second novel, he is also an editor of the literary magazine, Sensitive Skin and a member of the writers group The Unbearables. As a musician, he was interviewed in the Cyberpunk Issue of Keyboard Magazine. Staff writer Mark Dery dubbed him "a nimble-fingered keyboardist with a disk-drive mind and the ability to spin off ringing phrases with the speed of a Macintosh." Recent music projects include Cherry Red (Feralette), Pillbox (Feralette), 22 Brides (Zero Hour) and "Save Yourself," a video for Arthur Baker's Nation Of Abel.

Writing Bio

The son of an English and music teacher, I began to study prosody with my aunt at the age of ten. I edited my first literary magazine in the fifth grade, my first underground paper in the seventh. With John Shirley, I edited the magazines, Flagellation, and Guts: You Like It, It Hates Yours. After receiving my degree in music composition, I studied writing with Dennis Cooper. Invited by Dean of Literature Robert Coover, I read excerpts from my work at the Unspeakable Practices II Vanguard Narrative Festival at Brown University (February, 1993). I have also read at The Poetry Project; and in the summer of 93, I toured California reading with Black Ice Books writers John Shirley, Larry McCaffery, Mark Amerika, Chris Mazza and Jill St. Jacques. I am the author of a novel, a short story collection, a book of poems and several transverse narratives originally scripted in hypercard. Currently at work on a second novel, I find that writing is my way of getting linear dissonant counterpoint--the chamber music of nightmares and empty attics--out of my system.

Other

• Invited by Professor Robert Coover, I read from my novel, discussed my writing, and played excerpts from my Orlando Concerto, at the Unspeakable Practices II Vanguard Narrative Festival at Brown University (February 24-27, 1993).
• In 1992, I wrote, arranged and recorded music for the movie, The Crow (Edward R. Pressman Productions,Warner Bros), with Godfrey Diamond.
• Profiled and interviewed in Keyboard Magazine (Vol. 15, No. 5, Issue #157, May, 1989), a nationally distributed music magazine. The interviewer dubbed me "a nimble-fingered keyboardist and composer with a disk-drive mind and the ability to spin out ringing phrases with the speed of a Macintosh."
• Profiled in Cyberpunk America (Takayuki Tatsumi, Keso Books, Japan, 1989), a book about contemporary U.S. literature. The 12-page profile praised my writing and musical accomplishments.
• From 1982 until the present, I have written, arranged and/or played music on albums for artists on labels such as Capitol, ATCO, Atlantic, Island and Virgin.
• Article covering my readings at Brown University, and my story in Avant Pop, published in Poets & Writers (v.22, Issue 2).
• Avant Pop reviewed in Downtown Magazine (issue 327). Review cited Eurudice's "Once Upon A Real Woman," Delaney's "On The Unspeakable," and my "When Sleep Comes Down" as the best stories in the anthology.
• Quoted in Mondo 2000, (Issue 7, 1992).
• With John Shirley, co-edited the literary magazine, Flagellation (Thanatos Press, Portland, Or, 1982).

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