Publications

Books I am the founder, editor, publisher, and a contributor to Beatdom magazine, and also the owner and operator of Beatdom Books. I have written a few books:

• • The Dog Farm (2010) (out of print)
  • Scientologist! William S Burroughs and the ‘Weird Cult’ (2013)
  • 6 Stories (2013)
  • Grammar for IELTS Writing (2018)
  • World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller (2019)

I have edited the following:

• • Beatdom #1– #19 (2007-present)
  • Zoning, by Spencer Kansa (2010)
  • Beat Poetry, by Larry Beckett (2012)
  • The Third Kind of Horse, by Michelle Auerbach (2013)
  • Sane Asylum, by Allison Whittenberg (2013)
  • Wood Splinters, by Cia Mathew (2013)
  • Don’t Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg ‘72 Through ‘97, by Marc Olmsted (2014)
  • The Beat Interviews, by John Tytell (2014)
  • Under These Stars, by Tony R Rodriguez (2014)
  • Naked Tea, by Philip Willey (2014)
  • The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg, by Eliot Katz (2016)
  • Beat Transnationalism, by John Tytell (2017)
  • Off the Road and Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Mickey Harper (2017)
  • Did Beatniks Kill John F. Kennedy? by Robert Johnson (2017)
  • Straight Around Allen, by Bob Rosenthal (2018)

Essays/Articles

Jack magazine – fiction/memoir

• • Spring, 2009, vol. 3, no. 2 – “Big sur”/ “Crop crashing”

Road junky –  travel writer

• • “Kimchi in Korea: the pickled cabbage obsession”
  • “Dirty foreigners brought swine flu to Korea”
  • “Fleeced like a sucker in South Korea on the BBC”
  • “The Korean DMZ”
  • “A backpack stained with blood, sweat and tears”

The Nervous Breakdown –  author of numerous articles

• • 2009  –  present

Daegu Pockets –  writer, photographer

• • March 2009  –  “Guide to Siji”
  • December 2009  –  “Bookworms rejoice”
  • July 2010 – “Hey man!”

The Mutineer –  travel reporter, photographer

• • ????  –  “Soju Guide”

Kerb magazine –  essayist

• • January 2010  –  “Freedom doesn’t exist”
  • April 2010 – “Freak power party”

’10′ Magazine Asia – travel reporter

• • March 2010 – “Cheong-do bullfighting”
  • June 2010 – “Theme parks and zoos”
  • July 2010 – “Motorcycles in Korea”
  • August 2010 – “Climbing in Daegu”
  • January, 2012 – “Anhui travel guide”

Two-Footed Challenge – sports writer

• • April, 2010 – August, 2010

Korea Times – editorial

• • June, 2010 – “Delaying the inevitable”

Teachers for South Korea – travel writing

• • 2011-2014 – various articles about traveling in Asia

Phat’itude – essay

• • “what is the beat generation?”

Busan Haps – essay/opinion

• • Racism in Korea: Bringing it on yourself?

Three Wise Monkeys – essay/opinion

• • “The Korean look carries well in china”
  • “Ieodo and Korea’s short man syndrome”

Reality Studio – essay

• • “Scientology in the novels of William S. Burroughs”

The Final Academy – essay

• • Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the ‘weird cult’

The Sihanoukville Advertiser – travel writing

• • November 2013 – “Let’s talk about fishing villages”
  • March, 2014 – “Off the beaten track: exploring Cambodia’s coastline”
  • May, 2014 – “The rise and fall of Cambodian cinema”

Litro – essay

• • June, 2014 – “William S. Burroughs: Perpetual expat”

Indieberlin – op-ed

• • July, 2014 – “Literature was dying until the bookstores began to disappear”

Vide – essay

• January, 2017 – “Allen Ginsberg: World Citizen“

Empty Mirror – essay

• May, 2017 – “Aldous Huxley’s Dianetic Utopia“
• March, 2019 – “Except from World Citizen“

Short Fiction

• I don’t write much fiction, but my stories have appeared here:
  • “A man’s word” – Girls with Insurance (2010)
  • “Nine stickmen” – Danse Macabre (2011)
  • “Invigilante” – Ka-pow (2013)
  • “The I.S. Man Cometh” – Imperial Youth Review #3 (2015)

Fuck Fiction – Editor/Contributor

• • December, 2012 – “a man’s word”
  • December, 2012 – “whore cat”
  • September, 2013 – “#darkasfuckout”
  • February, 2014 – “over”

Poetry

Alt Lit Press – internet poetry image

• • “relevance logic” (June, 2014)

Electric Cereal

• • “deep contemplative thoughts on returning to the west after eight years in asia” (June, 2014)

Reviews

American Book Review

• It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll

I have also been cited in Time and Harper’s on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize and the hilariousness of K-pop, respectively.