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links TW: "Another Love Story and Other Reviews"Asymptote (2012) "Run Lola Run." Film Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 3, Spring 2000). "History Lesson." Agni (2003). The Spectral University: A Memoir of the Late Sixties. Obscure Publications, 2005. Sovereign Insignificance: Review of Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 by Robert Walser. Marginalia (Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 2006). Tom Whalen Reads Walser in an Abandoned School Bus. Words Without Borders. Tom Whalen on Walser and the Visual Arts. Words Without Borders. "'You're a Smart Kid. Figure it Out': Robert Harmon's The Hitcher." College Hill Review (No. 2, Spring 2009). “A Bucket of Maggots, A Can of Worms: Methods of Order in Greenan’s Macabre Collage”.College Hill Review (No. 7, Spring 2011). "On Critical Fiction: Tom Whalen interviewed by Henry Wessells "Waiting for the Light: Michel Varisco's 'Cotton Mill Series.'" Images. recommended: ABC of Reading Agni Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics Russell H. Greenan Flatland the Film Ellipsis Press Beuyscout Gabrielle Zimmermann The Assassination of Spiro Agnew A Novel by Steven Janiszewski			"Whalen’s work is thickly lyrical and meditative, interrogating the relation of language to things, of books to life." —Review of Contemporary Fiction
	The Birth of Death and Other Comedies: The Novels of Russell H. Greenan	Doll with chili pepper: Tom Whalen	New from Caketrain Press: Dolls: Prose Poems
	Comments on The Birth of Death and Other Comedies: The 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 Whalen’s study of Greenan is, like the novels it so lovingly details, masterful, uncommon, and intensely personal. — James Sallis In The Birth of Death and Other Comedies Tom Whalen provides an astute, salutary dissection of Russell H. Greenan's work, especially Greenan’s eccentric and inspired novel, It Happened in Boston?, a paranoid faith-grope, in his chapter “What an Edifice of Artifice!" If you've never read Greenan's odd work, reading Whalen’s book guarantees that you will. It will make you a fan of both writers. What a masterfice! — Derek Pell
	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, 1986). Several chapbooks have appeared with Obscure Publications.
	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 Review, Coe Review, Fiction International, Florida Review, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Hopkins Review, Hotel Amerika, The Idaho Review, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Marginalia, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Natural Bridge, The Nebraska Review, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Northwest Review, Ploughshares, The Quarterly, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Southern California Review, Texas Review, Witness, and other journals. Criticism (on Lewis Carroll, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Conrad, Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Wallace Stevens, Doris Lessing, Donald Barthelme, George Garrett, Stephen Becker, Russell H. Greenan, Buster Keaton, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Wim Wenders, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Tom Tykwer, John Carpenter), poetry, personal essays, and collaborative translations have appeared in Bookforum, Chelsea, Connecticut Review, Critique, Essays in Literature, Film Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Hollins Critic, Literature/Film Quarterly, New Orleans Review, The Missouri Review, The Paris Review, The Seattle Review, The Southern Review, Studies in Short Fiction, The Wallace Stevens Journal. Collaborative translations of stories by Robert Walser in Selected Stories (New York Review Books) and Masquerade and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press). Co-editor of the Robert Walser Number of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Recipient of 2006 Caketrain Chapbook Competition, The Texas Review Press Novella Prize (1996), The Missouri Review Editors' Prize in the Essay (1993), Louisiana Arts Fellowship in Literature (1985), Pro Helvetia Fellowships (1990, 1992). Lecturer  in film, Staatliche Akademie der Künste Stuttgart (2008-). Tom Whalen is "one of the first-rate experimental writers in the New South whose work cannot be missed." —Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1989