D. HARLAN WILSON is a fiction writer, literary critic, hack bodybuilder, & assistant professor of English at Wright State University-Lake Campus. His books include The Kafka Effekt (2001), Stranger on the Loose (2003), Pseudo-City (2005), & a pulp science fiction novel, Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia (2007), the latter of which is the first installment in the Scikungfi trilogy. Book 2 is Codename Prague (2010); Book 3 is The Kyoto Man (2011). Other upcoming projects include Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria (2008) & a book of literary criticism, Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction (2009).

As a plaquedemic, DHW feels the need to talk about himself in the third person and discuss his degrees and professional life. He holds a M.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, a M.A. in Science Fiction Studies from the University of Liverpool, & a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University. Prior to his graduate studies he worked as an international salesman, a model & actor, a casino dealer, a security guard, a garbage man, a tax collector, a sommelier, a town crier, & a flâneur.

DHW is editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a journal of Bizarro texts.

Recently DHW read the first chapter of Blankety Blank during Bizarro Fiction Night at Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago. The event was recorded on YouTube. DHW's reading is available in one-two parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AnBuYCHGlg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7VA-Lu2a6c

Thanks much to David Agranoff for emcing the shindig and Eckhard Gerdes for setting it up!

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The latest issue of Withersin, Death 1.3, features an interview with DHW called "Journey into Plaquedemia" in which he discusses Dr. Identity. Go here to pick up a copy or, better yet, subscribe to Withersin, a literary magazine of "the dark, the different, the pleasantly sinister."

Compliments of Withersin, here is an abbreviated online version of DHW's interview and a short review of Dr. Identity.

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There is a new review of Blankety Blank in the latest issue of Sussurus Magazine in which DHW's writing is compared to the wired, weird rants of The Ultimate Warrior. High praise indeed. Click the sussurus brain to read the review.

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Blankety Blank is now available for pre-order directly from Raw Dog Screaming Press. There is a $5 discount for the hardcover, which will be printed in August, and a $2 discount for the paperback, which will be available in 2009. Get some!

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There are two short, preliminary reviews of Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Viulgaria available from Word Press and Fractal Matter.

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In August, DHW is attending Horrorfind Weened 10, where Blankety Blank will debut. Among the con's guests are actors Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Planet Terror), "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (They Live) and William Forsythe (The Devil's Rejects, Halloween 2007) and authors Jack Ketchum, Michael Arnzen and Edward Lee. Click here for a full list of guests.

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The latest issue of American Book Review (Vol. 29, Issue 4, May/June 2008) features an excellent review of Dr. Identity by Leora Lev, who describes the novel as "better 'n a bushel full of Benzedrine-spiked donuts holes! Pomo cybertheory never tasted so good or made you fly this high!"

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Check out the cover art for DHW's upcoming book of criticism, Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction (2009), and novel, Codename Prage: Book 2 of the Scikungfi Trilogy (2010). Technologized Desire was co-designed by Japanese artist Kazuhiko Nakamura and the notorious Brandon Duncan. Codenape Prague was designed by Brett Weldele, whose illustrating accolades include the graphic novels The Surrogates and Southland Tales, both of which have been adapted for the Big Screen.

Technologized Desire will be published by Guide Dog Books, the new nonfiction syndicate of Raw Dog Screaming Press, who will publish Codename Prague.

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In April DHW won the 2007 Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award at Wright State University-Lake Campus.

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Read DHW's story "The Monk Spitter" in Issue 2 of the Scottish literary journal The Ranfurly Review. The issue is available for .pdf download here.

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DHW has been commissioned to write a book-length study of John Carpenter's film They Live for Wallflower Press's new Cultographies series. Don't hold your breath, though; it won't be published until 2012. In the meantime, check out some other cultographies:

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CURRENTLY ONLINE: Issue 29 of The Dream People. Featured are fictions (by Kevin Sweeney, kek-w, Cameron Pierce, & Brandi Wells), novel excerpts (by Tom Bradley & Kevin L. Donihe), a microcriticism (by Robert Parker), book reviews (of Jordan Krall's Piecemeal June, Jeremy C. Shipp's Vacation, Jason Hornsby's Every Sigh, The End, Carlton Mellick III's Teeth & Tongue Landscape, Jeffrey Thomas & Carlton Mellick III's Ugly Heaven, Beautiful Hell, & John Edward Lawson's Discouraging at Best), an interview (with Jase Daniels & Forrest Armstrong), & artwork (by Jase Daniels & David Spitzer).

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NEW RELEASE: Counting Earps & Other Rejekts, a small collection of Bizarro stories and flash fiction, most of which were rejected for publication by certain magazines and journals for being "not right" or "too strange" or "lacking meaning and purpose." Also included is the screenplay of The Cocktail Party. Published the the Avant Punk label, these weird, worthless fictions will be given away for FREE to members of the Avant Punk Army for their milit(er)ary service.

Here is the cover designed by Brandon Duncan. Click on it for a larger version.

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Read DHW's story, Somewhere in Time, in the Issue 7 of Bust Down the Door & Eat All the Chickens. Usually Bust is a print publication, but this issue is available for free .pdf download. Click the cover.

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Here's the cover for Brandon Duncan's upcoming graphic story-cycle, Ten Nails on a Screaming Chalkboard, which will be published by Raw Dog Screaming Press in 2008. The book combines stories by DHW, John Lawson, Gina Ranalli, Dustin LaValley, Bradley Sands, Vincent Sakowski, Nicole Del Sesto, Sean Kilpatrick, and Andersen Prunty.

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Take a sneak peak at the first chapter, The Silo, of DHW's upcoming novel, Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria (2008), in Issue 6 of Bust Down the Door & Eat All the Chickens, the premier journal of absurdist literature. Click the cover image (designed by Brandon Duncan) to purchase a copy.