Bibliography of Tom La Farge
PUBLISHED WORKS
Books
1) The Crimson Bears, Part I. Novel. Sun & Moon Press, 1993.
2) A Hundred Doors: The Crimson Bears, Part II. Novel. Sun & Moon Press, 1994.
3) Terror of Earth: .x. fablels. Short stories. Sun & Moon Press, 1996.
4) Die Zitadelle des Goldenen Bären. (German translation of The Crimson Bears & A Hundred Doors). Klett-Cotta, 1997.
5) Zuntig. Novel. Green Integer, 2001.
6) Usage: A Workbook for Students of English. Wayside Publishing, 2005.
7) Administrative Assemblages: 13 Writhing Machines no. 1. Nonfiction. Proteotypes, 2008.
8) Homomorphic Converters: 13 Writhing Machines no. 2. Nonfiction. Proteotypes, 2009.
9) Echo Alternators: 13 Writhing Machines no. 3. Nonfiction. Proteotypes, 2010.
10) Life And Conversation Of Animals. Cross Genre. Proteotypes, 2010.
11) The Broken House: Book One of the Enchantments. Novel. Spuyten Duyvil, 2015.
12) Maznoona: Book Two of the Enchantments. Novel. Spuyten Duyvil, 2016.
13) Humans by Lamplight: Book Three of The Enchantments. Novel. Spuyten Duyvil, 2018.
In Journals and Edited Volumes
1) Numerous pieces in parody issues of The Harvard Lampoon, 1966-69:
Playboy, Fall 1966; The New York Times, March 7, 1968 (fake front page wrapped around a year-old real Times; local distribution only); Life, Fall 1968; Time, Fall 1969.
2) “Sound Poetry How?” (translation of Bernard Heidsieck). L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E vol. 4, 1982.
3) “The Image Breaker” (Short Fiction). The Little Magazine, 1991.
4) “The Crossing” (Short Fiction). Furious Fictions, 1994.
5) “Rapture” (Short Fiction). Parnassus: Poetry in Review, 1994.
6) “The Dead Come Back to Life” (Short Fiction). 50: A Celebration of Sun & Moon Classics, 1995.
7) “Readerly Writing” (Essay). Revista Canarias Estudias Ingleses, 1999.
8) “from Kiarostami Series 5: Underground” (Excerpt from "Talking to the Earthquake," a libretto) CHAIN: 9, 2002.
9) “Collage and Map” (Essay). New York Review of Science Fiction, 2005.
10) "Arabian Wine by Gregory Feeley"(Book Review), New York Review of Science Fiction, 2005
11) “The Reader of Maps” (Essay). Paradoxa: Terrains Vagues, 2006.
12) “Night Reconnaissance” (Excerpt from The Broken House). Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction, 2006.
13) “Out of the Cellar: On William Gillespie's Letters to Lamont” (Book Review). Marginalia, 2006.
https://spinelessbooks.com/lettertolamont/outofthecellar.html
14) "The Noulipian Analects by Christine Wertheim and Matias Viegener" (Book Review), 2008:
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/matias-viegener-christine-wertheims-the-n-oulipian-analects/
15) and the first version of that review, rejected by Bomb, was printed here in 2009:
http://exploringfictions.blogspot.com/2009/08/tom-la-farge-review-of-noulipaian.html
16) “Multi-mindedness” (Essay). The WisCon Chronicles vol. 2, 2008.
17) “Libraries and War” (Essay). Marginalia, 2009.
18) “Three Writhings,” The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, 2009.
19) “here is a migration disclosed within our own kingdom” (Excerpt from Life and Conversations of Animals), Marginalia, 2010.
20) “Conditions Necessary for the Formation of Alfred Tredway White” (Essay). The Social Vision of Alfred Tredway White, Proteotypes, 2011.
21) “Wood Well” (Excerpt from "Night and Silence," a play). Re: Telling: An Anthology of Borrowed Premises, Stolen Settings, Purloined Plots, and Appropriated Characters, 2011.
22) “Infinity, Minus Forty Yearly Installments: Noun Complements (1972-2012)” (by Michelle Métail, translation). Words Without Borders, 2013.
23) "From the Translator, Content with Constraint," (Criticism)
https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/from-the-translator-constraint-or-content
24) "The Collectivoli Gardens," (with Wendy Walker and the Writhing Society), American Book Review, 2012.
25) “Histoire de Oo,” Oulipo Pornobongo 3: Anthology of Erotic Wordplay, 2014.
26) “Ragged Dog Summer,” Black Scat Review, 2014.
27) "The Drunken Mystification," Western Humanities Review, 2015, and:
https://d7.drunkenboat.com/db20/translation/tom-la-farge-translating-arthur-rimbaud
28) "72: Perfect-Perverse" (a univocalic remix of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 72"), Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed, ed. D. Gilson, Parlor Press, 2016.
29) "Ode from a Mockingbird," BIG OTHER, 2019.
BLOG
writhingsociety.blogspot.com, 2009-2018
UNPUBLISHED WORKS
1) Dreams of Shadows: On George Chapman's “Bussy d'Ambois,” (Ph.d dissertation, Princeton 1983).
2) "Night and Silence", a play upon a play (A Midsummer Night's Dream)199?
3) A Morocco Journal, 1997.
4) Chameleomancy, a novel/memoir of Morocco, 2000.
5) “The Polder and the Pale” (Essay). 2005.
6) “The City of If /The Wounded Reader,” (Unfinished essay on fantasy aesthetics). c.2006.
7) “Two Book Thieves” (Essay). 2014. (for Libraries and Danger, eds. La Farge and Walker)
8) "Talking to the Earthquake", a libretto (inspired by Abbas Kiarostomi's 1999 film The Wind Will Carry Us), 2002?
9) "Cape Cod Girls," song lyrics/illustrated book, 2016.
10) The Forty Visits, a novel (unfinished), 2019.
11) The Vertical Meadow, a novel (unfinished), 2020.