A Letter from Dan Barry

From: saturnine23@juno.com

Subject: surgery has published a piece of mine!

Date: August 9, 2004 2:30:47 PM EDT

hey everyone!

first things first: i know i've been an uber-flake about picking up the phone. i have no excuse for this except to say that it is actually quasi-broken, and i've also been spending a lot of time with my family, which is a very good thing. i'm sorry if i've been a pain to get in touch with. i owe a lot of you phone calls -- we'll talk soon.

second, my big fat piece of news! an awesome avant-garde lit website, surgery of modern warfare, has published a piece of mine this week. it will be one of the last pieces they put up before they close sometime next week. it's a short piece i'm pretty amped about -- a somewhat-fictionalized account of my recent trip to the psych unit (!!!) of UCONN medical center. (i play with the idea of being more psycho than i really am. although i'm pretty psycho.) check it out -- i hope you like it. dig through their archives if you get a chance -- there's good stuff in there.

third, some upcoming news: the wonderful rob bellinger and i are actually, finally (we're not kidding this time) completing work on our first self-published books. we've selected cover art, finalized layouts, and we're in the process of putting on the last finishing touches. my anthology, "sticks and rocks and stars" (which we're so sick of by now we've been calling it "sticks and rocks and SARS") and rob's grindfolio, "proclivities," will be out by the end of the summer. check out www.rbellinger.com/name_tk for more info on name_TK publications.

that's all i have to report for now.

love,

dan