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  • How to Live Under Fascism A Possible Epic of Care: A Collaborative Poem Between Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz Too Late for Nightmares Miracle and Catastrophe Visul Diacritic Metroul F No Time Like Now Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn In Praise of Sleep Submarinul Iertat Anniversary Edition The Art of Forgetting: new poems Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes) So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments The Poetry Lesson The Forgiven Submarine/Submarinul Iertat Jealous Witness Femeia neagra a unui cucus de hoti New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City Instrumentul Negru: Poezii 1965-1968 Wakefield: a novel It Was Today: New Poems Casanova in Bohemia/Casanova in Boemia An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards) The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays Selected Poetry/Poezii Alese A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978 Messiah, a novel Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium Ay, Cuba! The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair
  • The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays The Blood Countess, a novel Zombification The Repentance of Lorraine Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century Belligerence, poems The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, stories Comrade Past & Mister Present The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape A Craving for Swan In America's Shoes Selected Poems 1970-1980 Necrocorrida For the Love of a Coat The Lady Painter The Marriage of Insult and Injury The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius The HISTORY of the GROWTH of HEAVEN A Serious Morning Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone license to carry a gun
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    • A Possible Epic of Care: A Collaborative Poem Between Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz
    • Too Late for Nightmares
    • Miracle and Catastrophe
    • Visul Diacritic
    • Metroul F
    • No Time Like Now
    • Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
    • In Praise of Sleep
    • Submarinul Iertat Anniversary Edition
    • The Art of Forgetting: new poems
    • Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes)
    • So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems
    • The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
    • Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments
    • The Poetry Lesson
    • The Forgiven Submarine/Submarinul Iertat
    • Jealous Witness
    • Femeia neagra a unui cucus de hoti
    • New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City
    • Instrumentul Negru: Poezii 1965-1968
    • Wakefield: a novel
    • It Was Today: New Poems
    • Casanova in Bohemia/Casanova in Boemia
    • An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards)
    • The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays
    • Selected Poetry/Poezii Alese
    • A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978
    • Messiah, a novel
    • Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium
    • Ay, Cuba!
    • The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere
    • Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995
    • Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair
  • Books: 1970-1995/
    • The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays
    • The Blood Countess, a novel
    • Zombification
    • The Repentance of Lorraine
    • Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century
    • Belligerence, poems
    • The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
    • At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga
    • Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research
    • Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, stories
    • Comrade Past & Mister Present
    • The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape
    • A Craving for Swan
    • In America's Shoes
    • Selected Poems 1970-1980
    • Necrocorrida
    • For the Love of a Coat
    • The Lady Painter
    • The Marriage of Insult and Injury
    • The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius
    • The HISTORY of the GROWTH of HEAVEN
    • A Serious Morning
    • Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone
    • license to carry a gun
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Andrei Codrescu

a journal of the plague

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    • How to Live Under Fascism
    • A Possible Epic of Care: A Collaborative Poem Between Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz
    • Too Late for Nightmares
    • Miracle and Catastrophe
    • Visul Diacritic
    • Metroul F
    • No Time Like Now
    • Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
    • In Praise of Sleep
    • Submarinul Iertat Anniversary Edition
    • The Art of Forgetting: new poems
    • Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes)
    • So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems
    • The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
    • Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments
    • The Poetry Lesson
    • The Forgiven Submarine/Submarinul Iertat
    • Jealous Witness
    • Femeia neagra a unui cucus de hoti
    • New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City
    • Instrumentul Negru: Poezii 1965-1968
    • Wakefield: a novel
    • It Was Today: New Poems
    • Casanova in Bohemia/Casanova in Boemia
    • An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards)
    • The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays
    • Selected Poetry/Poezii Alese
    • A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978
    • Messiah, a novel
    • Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium
    • Ay, Cuba!
    • The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere
    • Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995
    • Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair
  • Books: 1970-1995/
    • The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays
    • The Blood Countess, a novel
    • Zombification
    • The Repentance of Lorraine
    • Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century
    • Belligerence, poems
    • The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
    • At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga
    • Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research
    • Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, stories
    • Comrade Past & Mister Present
    • The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape
    • A Craving for Swan
    • In America's Shoes
    • Selected Poems 1970-1980
    • Necrocorrida
    • For the Love of a Coat
    • The Lady Painter
    • The Marriage of Insult and Injury
    • The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius
    • The HISTORY of the GROWTH of HEAVEN
    • A Serious Morning
    • Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone
    • license to carry a gun
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Walls and Curtains

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The following mystery involves walls and curtains the narrator parts to uncover terrifying & marvelous secrets

From the 20th century’s Iron Curtain, to the Fall of the Wall, to the Pandemic prison–discover, Escape!

September 27, 2020

Plague Diary: surviving the coming dictatorship

September 27, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu

Enroll in courses at TESS, the Trump Era Survival School! Using my experience of living under a humorless tyrant I will teach Whispering, Double-Masking and Resistance.

September 27, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, TESS, Trump Era Survival School, commentary, politics

Andrei Codrescu

September 21, 2020

Plague Diary: How no money became money

September 21, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
Plague Diary: How no money became money. The mystery of money explained through holes.
September 21, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
essay
Andrei Codrescu, commentary, torn jeans, faith

Andrei Codrescu

September 10, 2020

Plague diary: dispatches from hell

September 10, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu

Varieties of hell found interesting by an insect from the future

September 10, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, commentary, hell, hel, hell bot future

Andrei Codrescu

August 30, 2020

Plague Diary: The nightmares of my friends

August 30, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
Plague Diary: The nightmares of my friends. A digest of nightmares with details to come.
August 30, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, Plaque Diary, commentary, essay, nightmare, COVID

Andrei Codrescu

August 22, 2020

Plague Diary: the sperm of race horses eats time

August 22, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
Plague Diary: the sperm of race horses eats time thickening coincidences are stealing time in our isolation
August 22, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, commentary, Plague Diary, horse sperm, coincidence, Robert Moss, Jung

Andrei Codrescu

August 15, 2020

Plague Diary: thugs stealing the mailboxes of America

August 15, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
Plague Diary: thugs stealing the mailboxes of America. madman ordering the destruction of our civilization
August 15, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Charlie Kaufman, Antkind, commentary, Plague Diary, Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu

August 07, 2020

Plague Diary: Intimate Questionz

August 07, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
Plague Diary: Intimate Questionz
August 07, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, poetry, commentary

Andrei Codrescu

July 31, 2020

Plague Diary: hyper object rotten potato bottom stone soup

July 31, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu

we have reached a new bottom of july despair that calls for breaking things and diving into the rotten potato

July 31, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, essay, commentary, poetry

Andrei Codrescu

July 16, 2020

Plague Diary: we are being murdered

July 16, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
July 16, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, covid, essay, commentary, politics

Andrei Codrescu

July 10, 2020

how to make a Dicktator

July 10, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
This one page book teaches the six commandments of absolute power. We now have an AI machine that rebut these commandments and restore public trust
July 10, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, commentary, essay, Cervantes

Andrei Codrescu

July 08, 2020

do angels have teeth?

July 08, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu

huey p. long, governor of Louisiana and populist candidate for the presidency in 1935, was assassinated by a dentist. or was he?

July 08, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, commentary

Andrei Codrescu

July 06, 2020

Plague Diary: The Vomit & the Glory

July 06, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
Plague Diary: The Vomit & the Glory The ultimate postcard: Trump at Mt. Rushmore
July 06, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, trump mount rushmore, commentary, essay, politics

Andrei Codrescu

July 01, 2020

Plague Diary: soul traffic in the age of CoVid

July 01, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
Plague Diary: soul traffic in the age of CoVid. When so many people die there will be a traffic jam of souls leaving the planet. The Walk-Ins are here to help
July 01, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, commentary, covid, the walk ins, politics, essay

Andrei Codrescu

June 29, 2020

Plague Diary: Jews Gap New York Pandemic

June 29, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu

Plague Diary: Jews Gap New York Pandemic New York media defined the plague first: does the rest of the country feel dissed?

Photo: Carl Schleicher

June 29, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, Jews, commentary, New York, Media, covid

Andrei Codrescu

June 26, 2020

Plague Diary:Sahara Dust Plume, CoVid, Mask and Veil

June 26, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
Plague Diary:Sahara Dust Plume, CoVid, Mask and Veil CoVid 19 greets her Demon Lover, Sahara Dust Plume
June 26, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
covid, dust plume, commentary, Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu

June 24, 2020

Plague diary: have you read Gogol?

June 24, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu

The inmate, addicted to the internet, finds pleasure again in a beloved old vice

June 24, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
gogol, Andrei Codrescu, commentary, poetry

Andrei Codrescu

June 22, 2020

Goodbye New York, hello Miguel de Cervantes

June 22, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
June 22, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, Dixie Cup Factory, Michagan, Esaay, politics, commentary

Andrei Codrescu

June 17, 2020

Plague Diary: Statues Now and Then

June 17, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu

my biography in statues

June 17, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
Andrei Codrescu, statue removal, black lives matter, protests 2020, commentary

Andrei Codrescu

June 12, 2020

Plague Diary: San Francisco, Art, Dada, the Maltese Falcon

June 12, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu

Plague Diary: San Francisco, Art, Dada, the Maltese Falcon. October 8, 2016, I lectured on Dada as the world ended

June 12, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
San Francisco Art Mueseum, Dada, The Maltese Falcon, Essay, commentary, dadism, Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu

June 10, 2020

lowlives will always have a job

June 10, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
June 10, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu/
essay, commentary, Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu

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    • Calendar
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  • New Work/
  • Podcast & Audio/
    • The Second Oswald
    • PODCAST: Nipples in the Crowd
    • Audio
  • What I'm Reading/
  • Books: 1996-now/
    • How to Live Under Fascism
    • A Possible Epic of Care: A Collaborative Poem Between Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz
    • Too Late for Nightmares
    • Miracle and Catastrophe
    • Visul Diacritic
    • Metroul F
    • No Time Like Now
    • Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
    • In Praise of Sleep
    • Submarinul Iertat Anniversary Edition
    • The Art of Forgetting: new poems
    • Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes)
    • So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems
    • The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
    • Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments
    • The Poetry Lesson
    • The Forgiven Submarine/Submarinul Iertat
    • Jealous Witness
    • Femeia neagra a unui cucus de hoti
    • New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City
    • Instrumentul Negru: Poezii 1965-1968
    • Wakefield: a novel
    • It Was Today: New Poems
    • Casanova in Bohemia/Casanova in Boemia
    • An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards)
    • The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays
    • Selected Poetry/Poezii Alese
    • A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978
    • Messiah, a novel
    • Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium
    • Ay, Cuba!
    • The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere
    • Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995
    • Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair
  • Books: 1970-1995/
    • The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays
    • The Blood Countess, a novel
    • Zombification
    • The Repentance of Lorraine
    • Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century
    • Belligerence, poems
    • The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
    • At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga
    • Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research
    • Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, stories
    • Comrade Past & Mister Present
    • The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape
    • A Craving for Swan
    • In America's Shoes
    • Selected Poems 1970-1980
    • Necrocorrida
    • For the Love of a Coat
    • The Lady Painter
    • The Marriage of Insult and Injury
    • The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius
    • The HISTORY of the GROWTH of HEAVEN
    • A Serious Morning
    • Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone
    • license to carry a gun
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New Book Launch – How to Live Under Fascism

May 23 2025

New York, NY


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What I’m Reading

HYPERREALISM

Mircea Cărtărescu SOLENOID Deep Vellum Press 2024

Georgi Gospodinov THE PHYSICS OF SORROW Liveright

Aristotle POETICS a new translation by Anthony Kenny