Word of Mouth

Pete Cherches blogs about food, travel, literary and music pursuits, the occasional dream and fugitive thoughts of all sorts.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Friend: I didn't figure him for a cream puff kind of guy.

Me: Yeah, whatever happened to men who drank chocolate chips straight out of the bottle?

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.

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