Word of Mouth: August 2010

Monday, August 09, 2010

Steak-Nose

My story "The Man with a Steak Nose" appears in the latest Mung Being.

Otherwise, I'm still on vacation.

: Name: Peter Cherches

is the author of Lift Your Right Arm (Pelekinesis, 2013), a collection of minimalist short prose sequences, as well as two previous volumes of short prose: Condensed Book and Between a Dream and a Cup of Coffee, as well as several limited-edition artist's books. His work has recently appeared in the anthologies Poetry 180 and Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. His fiction and short prose work has been featured in a wide range of magazines and journals, including Harper’s, Semiotext(e), Transatlantic Review, Fiction International, and Bomb. Sonorexia, the avant-vaudeville music-performance group he co-led with Elliott Sharp in the 1980s, appeared at such legendary venues as The Mudd Club and CBGB. Cherches is a two-time recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships in creative nonfiction.

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"The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity than the discovery of a new star." - Brillat-Savarin

"The gourmet savors much in a cheese he would not abide in a mate." - Cherches