The print version of The Serial Stowaway is available for order.
Rob’s new novel, The Serial Stowaway, is coming soon. Cover by Claire Stamler-Goody.
Thanks to the great Plague Remedy podcast for having Rob on to talk about his books, women’s basketball, and the band Souled American.
“The Serial Stowaway and the Professional Protester,” a chapter from Rob’s forthcoming novel, appeared in 100subtexts magazine.
Rob’s story “New York City Mayor Ed Koch Will Work out the Details Later” was nominated for a 2025 Best of the Net Award by The Gorko Gazette.
The Greg and Dan Show on WMBD Radio hosts Rob for a discussion about the 1983 Peoria botulism outbreak and his new book Gee, That Was Fun.
Tim Shelley at WCBU Radio interviews Rob about “7 days of strange events in 1983.”
Rob is interviewed about Gee, That Was Fun by The Gorko Gazette.
Gee, That Was Fun: 7 Days of Mayhem. 1983 is available for order.
Coming May 7, 2024, from Trunk of My Car: Rob’s historical novel Gee, That Was Fun: 7 Days of Mayhem, 1983.
Drunk Monkeys published Rob’s essay "Failure as a Hobby” in its recent pop culture issue.
The personal essay “Pummeling the Dead” appeared in ExPat.
Rob’s long critical and biographical essay about forgotten pulp writer Carroll John Daley, “The Worst Writer in the World,” appeared in 100 Subtexts Magazine.
Drunk Moneys was kind enough to rehome “The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side.”
The great Cream Scene Carnival published “Two Weeks After David Cassidy’s 22nd Birthday.”
“Mick Jagger Mails a Letter” appeared in Mayday.
How to Walk with Steve won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir.
A slice of corporate life in Rob’s found fiction “Company News” just released by The Militant Grammarian.
Red Fez was kind enough to have published a wacky piece of literary criticism by Sheryl Lilke and me titled “A Rhetoric of Blankness.”
The Los Angeles Review of Books published another review by Rob—this one of Victoria Buitron’s memoir in essays A Body Across Two Hemispheres.
Rob’s review of Lara Lafayette’s Possums Run Amok was just published by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Rob’s new book, Friends and Fiends, Pulp Stars and Pop Stars, is now available to order.
So happy to see “My Work Friend Saves the Day” up at the wonderful lit mag Damnation.
“My Famous Bed Story” is now up at the fabulously named Roi Faineant Press.
According to Bullshit Lit, Rob’s story “The First Time He Said That Word” is “some FAB bullshit.”
Super-exited that the Mod Squad novelization essay (“In Which I Admire and Gently Probe Mr. Richard Deming’s First Novelization of The Mod Squad”) landed at the estimable New World Writing.
Rob’s essay “How to Walk Down Stairs According to Chuck King” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Red Fez.
The crazed critique of character names in literature “State Your Name” has been published by the courageous folks at Eclectica.
Rob’s essay “Deathbed Entertainment” was nominated for Best of the Net by fine editors at The Bitchin’ Kitsch.
Rob’s review of Gabriel Hart’s new collection just appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Read five minutes of embarrassment in 100 words in “Toast,” featured in the great lit magazine Five Minutes.
Rob stopped by The Greg and Dan Show, WMBD Radio in Peoria, for an on-air interview and, because they didn’t want to stop, a spontaneous podcast.
Author and critic Gabriel Hart interviewed Rob for LitReactor.
The fourth of four essays on what Rob learned from Steve about creativity, “Autism, Writing, and the Encroaching World,” is up on The Dillydoun Review.
The audio version of How to Walk with Steve, read by Rob, is now available on Audible, Amazon, and other platforms.
Hear a super-fun conversation with Rob on The Lives of Writers podcast!
The truth can now be told. Read “A Secret History of Acronyms” from the fabulous Unfortunately, Literary Magazine. (As in, “Unfortunately, we have to decline your work.”)
Join the virtual book launch and reading for How to Walk with Steve on Sunday, Sept. 26, at 1 PM CT. Special guest readers: Adrienne Marie Barrios, Victoria Buitron, and Amy Burns.
Watch this meaty interview with Rob on Authors Talk (and be sure to subscribe to the Authors Talk YouTube channel).
“A Conversation with My Dead Father about The French Connection” is included in the anthology All My Relations, from the wonderful people at The Bitchin’ Kitsch.
See the video trailer for How to Walk with Steve by the award-winning filmmaker N.A.
See Rob interviewed about autism and his new book on The Jackson Robol Show.
The e-book version of How to Walk with Steve is now available from Amazon.
How to Walk with Steve is now available for pre-order from Latah Books.
Read Rob’s essay “Autism, Writing, and the Necessity of Repetition” in The Dillydoun Review.
Rob’s tiny essay “Future City, Illinois” is available on Gastropoda.
Read Rob’s take on pulp fiction and punctuation, “Basil Heatter and the Great Comma Awakening,” in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Read Rob’s expose “My Life as the Wife of Harrison Ford” in Litro Magazine.
Rob’s latest broadside against the corporate world, “Behind the Scenes with Executives in Charge of Toasters,” is up at Sledgehammer.
The first in a new series of essays, “Autism, Writing, and the Tyranny of Choice,” has been published by The Dillydoun Review.
Rob has been “Exposed” in the excellent magazine Drunk Monkeys.
Read the essay ”How to Walk Down Stairs According to Chuck King” in Red Fez.
Rob is now a regular contributor on autism and creativity for The Dillydoun Review.
An excerpt from Rob’s memoir called “A Hole in His Shoe” is in the latest issue of Anti-Heroin Chic.
Rob poses the burning question “Vladimir Nabokov vs. Jacqueline Susann: Who Will Win?” in the latest issue of Talk Vomit.
Make that a double: “Punchable” and “Ringo in the Time of COVID” are available on The Daily Drunk.
Rob goes behind the scenes with the one and only KISS in “Kissathon” thanks to HASH Journal.