ABOUT G. CARL PURCELL

G. Carl Purcell is a science fiction writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Genre, Open City and The 2nd Hand. He was a frequent contributor to McSweeney's website in its early days, and his work there has been anthologized in Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category.

Greg Purcell’s poetry has appeared in Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, The Agriculture Reader, Open City and New American Writing, and has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years. He was a columnist and reviewer for Stop Smiling's Barbaric Yawps column, before that venerable institution closed, and a frequent contributor to Cakewalk and The New Art Examiner. All gone. With Joel Craig, he founded The Danny's Reading Series in Chicago. In New York he founded St. Mark’s Bookshop Reading Series. He currently lives in Amherst, MA, where he records The No Slander Podcast with his partner, Ish Klein.

At restaurants, these two quietly wait to see who will pick up the check.