Perseverance and the Writer
My essay "The Great Unfinished American Novel" appears in the latest Mung Being, the Craft issue.
posted by Peter Cherches at 1:56 PM
Monday, October 05, 2009
About Me
- Name: Peter Cherches
Called “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches is a writer, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years, his work, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, has appeared in scores of magazines, anthologies and websites, including Transatlantic Review, Bomb, Harper’s, North American Review, Semiotext(e), and Poetry 180. Poet Billy Collins wrote, “To Gödel, Escher, and Bach we might consider adding Peter Cherches.” Whistler’s Mother’s Son is his most recent short prose collection from Pelekinesis.
Recent Posts
- Chilly Buff and Goat's Guts
- When the Carlsons Become the McBrides
- Drink More, Eat Less . . . At King Yum!
- Word of Mouth's Yom Kippur Pork Roundup
- Ripped Off By Jewel
- When Life Deals You Green Chuckles, Laugh It Off
- Andean Eats
- Toby's Brilliant Brunch Pizza
- Orient-Express Had Me by the Balls
- Meat Up the Wazoo
- Back to Di Fara
- Support Your Local Small Business
- My Quest for Non-Alcoholic Gin
- Celiac-Friendly New York Without Compromise
- Downtown Made Me
- The Energy
- Rethinking the Cuban Sandwich
- A Memorable Menu
- Turkey Words
- Pide Party
- Dieting
- On Menu Scouting
- Ice Cream Jottings
- What's a Shmendrik?
- Holy Shit, Shatnez?
- I Was Culinarily Transgendered
- Rolled Beef, an Endangered Deli Meat
- A Kiss to the Blarney Stone
- Food Aromas
- Guy Kibbee Eggs
- Shrimp and Grits
- Chinese Food, the Early Years
- The Szechuan Seventies
- The Cantonese Comeback
- Stalking the Elusive Yunnan Cuisine
- Save the Butterfly Shrimp
- A Chinese Restaurant Dream
- Wu Liang Ye
- Wu Liang Ye II: Hounded
- Friend is the new Acquaintance (Facebook)
- When Good Restaurants Do Bad Websites
- Restaurant Websites Redux
- Bathroom Behavior on the Subway
- "Health Vegetarians"
- Leaving Momofuku to Others
- Una Pizza Overrated
- How Was Everything?
- The White Man's Dosa
- My Lunch with Ed Koch
- Choosing a Guidebook
- Small World Stories
- Eudora Welty at the Supreme Court
- Local Color
- Nostalgia for Kerala and its Food
- Nightmare in Karnataka
- Berber Shows and Chickie Grills
- Mr. Cherches Goes to India, Part I
- Mr. Cherches Goes to India, Part II
- The Road to Istria, Part I
- The Road to Istria, Part II
- The Old Neighborhood
- Halloween Story
- New Daddy with a Mustache
- Young Pete: The Dream
- 3 brief fat boy memories
- My Life of Crime
- Mrs. Zabell's Wrist
- Sable
Selected Earlier Posts
Chinese Food
Rants
Travel
Childhood
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