See a video interview about my new book, The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, from Princeton University Press.  I don't know about you, but I think that the 21st century cannot do without Dada; this book is not another study of Dada! it is a practical guide to the Dada life. This book is also a geyserized exit from the miserabilism and miraculousness of insane geography as per Jealous Witness: New Poems, with a CD by the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars (Coffee House Press, 2008). (Listen to Ivan Neville sing below!) The misery was human, an anthology of human mistakes that nature elevated into tragedy, and the miracle is that we are still here and young artists are remaking the joint. You can hear my commentaries on NPR's All Things Considered, podcast for easy extraction, and you can find my New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City, The Blood Countess, Messi@h, Casanova in Bohemia, and Wakefield, useful for building literary furniture in your cornucopic sun-powered house. You can add revolution and sentiment with  The Hole in the Flag: An Exile’s Tale of Return and Revolution, a book about the fact that you can go home again, and Ay, Cuba! A Socio-erotic Journey. I also wrote Hail, Babylon: American Cities at the end of The Millenium (the last one), and Road Scholar, which was a Peabody award-winning film. Since 1989, I've also been returning often to Romania and to the language of my birth, and seriously committing bilingvism: the first  attempt was a book-length interview called Miracle and Catastrophe: an interview with Andrei Codrescu by Robert Lazu, published in Timisoara, Romania, by Hartmann publishers in 2005. The second, a more perilous and more vertiginous act of philological derring-do is an epic poem co-written in Romanian by e-mail with the poet Ruxandra Cesereanu, called Submarinul Iertat, published in a deluxe edition by Editura Brumar in 2007, and published in English by Black Widow Press under the title Forgiven Submarine, with a  baroque and fabulously scary cover by Radiu Chio. The literary journal I founded in 1983, Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Life & Letters (corpse.org) has been updating itself spiritually and technologically, which is more than you can say about the Foreign Legion. In any case, this is the work, and the pleasure.

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Listen to Ivan Neville singing "Molly's Window" for the New Orleans Klezmer AllStars CD based on poems in Jealous Witness.

Good news: the Codrescu podcast and RSS feed are up now!