English-language author of a broad range of material from award-winning history articles to two pop musicology books, short stories, literary novels, album liner notes and countless articles, booklets, pamphlets, stories and articles online and in print. He has [re]written material for a broad spectrum of assignments: travel guides, film books, PhD theses, NGO newsletters, record labels. His own books have garnered much attention [BBC, NPR, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, NY Times]. He is the author of: the novels Beer Mystic and Ocean GroOve, short story collection Wiggling Wishbone, novella Spermatagonia: The Isle of Man, and the memoirs: Paris Scratch and NY Sin Phoney in Face Flat Minor. His books YODEL-AY-EE-OOOO: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World and Yodel in HiFi plus the CD Rough Guide to Yodel and his YOtube channel have created the misunderstanding that he's one of the world’s foremost yodel experts. The New York Times Magazine featured Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo in its “Annual Year of Ideas.” Non/fiction has appeared in, among others: The Guardian, The Times, American Heritage, American Lawyer, Esquire, Vox Populi, Truthdig, Ambit (London), Exquisite Corpse, Evergreen Review, Mississippi Review, Fiction International, Vokno (Prague), Public Illumination Magazine (Italy), Frank (Paris), Brooklyn Rail, Actuel (Paris) American Music Center Journal, Downtown, East Village Eye, Highlife, Journal of Irreproducible Results, Mennonite Historical Review, Mississippi Review, Paris Free Voice, Paris Passion … and many anthologies including Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene (NYU Press), Semiotext(e) SF, Best American Erotica (Simon & Schuster) Waiting for a Train: Jimmie Rodgers’s America (Rounder), The Nation-KGB Nonfiction Reader (Nation Books), Reggae, Rasta, Revolution: Jamaican Music from Ska to Dub (Schirmer), and most recently, From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream . Contact