Tom Whalen

"A Conference on Snow" - a short film from The President in Her Towers. Video realized by Oliver Kraft, Alberto Zamora Ruiz, Oliver Feigl, Alec Barth. Whalens work is thickly lyrical and meditative, interrogating the relation of language to things, Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1989 Comments on The Birth of Death and Other Comedies: Th... e Novels of Russell H. Greenan Russell H. Greenan is the chronicler of people living at the edge: the edge of civilization, the edge of madness, the bitter, crumbling edges of their own lives. Tom Whalens study of Greenan is, like the novels it so lovingly details, masterful, uncommon, and intensely personal. In The Birth of Death and Other Comedies Tom Whalen provides an astute, salutary dissection of Russell H. Greenan's work, especially Greenans eccentric and inspired novel, It Happened in Boston?, odd work, reading Whalens book guarantees that you will. It will make you a fan of both writers. Tom Whalen's books include Winter Coat (Red Dust, 1998), A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (with Daniel Quinn, Bantam Books, 1997), Roithamer's Universe ( Portals Press , 1996), The Camel's Back (with Michael Presti, Portals Press , 1993), Elongated Figures (Red Dust, 1991), The Eustachia Stories (Velocities Press, Guest Editor of the Sentence Feature: "Foreign Influences" for the final issue (number 10) of Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics . Short stories anthologized in Sudden Fiction; That's What I Like About the South: New Southern Stories for the Nineties; Elvis in Oz; A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose; Mondo Marilyn; The Book of Eros; Brief Encounters ; The Student Body ; Alice Redux and elsewhere. Prose poems anthologized in The Great American Prose Poem: From Poe to the Present ; An Introduction to the Prose Poem; The Anatomy of Water: A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry; The Best of the Prose Poem; The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry. Short stories published in AGNI , American Letters & Commentary, Chicago ...Read More