Publications and Portfolio

Fiction

“The Stump Grinder” (forthcoming), The Colored Lens, winter 2025

“A Concise Grammar of Conversational Centaurish,” Cagibi, issue 22, 2024

“Coda to ‘Piano Man’: Paul and Davey,” The Toast, 2014

Nonfiction

“Fantastic Dance: Rediscovering a 19th-Century Black Mandolinist,” Fretboard Journal, issue 56 (print only)

“Rodeo Drive: An Interview with Jennie Vee,” Eleven Magazine, issue 3 (print only)

Book review: The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, Vox.com, 2018

Book review: The City and the City by China Miéville, Vox.com, 2018

Portfolio

Here are some random illustrations I have done recently: some commissions and some personal goofy stuff. Click to see ’em big. My drawings have appeared in the Fretboard Journal, on album covers, and in weird dreams I’ve had.

You can even email me if you want me to draw something for you, if you want: excessive.vibrato@gmail.com