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Will Christopher Baer is the critically acclaimed author of the novels Kiss Me, Judas and Penny Dreadful. His third Phineas Poe novel, Hell's Half Acre is in stores now.

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Godspeed, Chris' new novel--Fall, 2007!


Penny Dreadful -- new trade!


Kiss Me, Judas -- new edition!

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Breaking down obsession, love, and hunger: Craig Clevenger, author of The Contortionist's Handbook, has performed an autopsy in essay form on Will Christopher Baer's nihilistic antihero and hunger artist, Phineas Poe. Read "Exposed Nerve" here!

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the hell you say

1/28/2004 @ 7:55 pm Comments Off

so, I dropped by clevenger’s site yesterday to read some of the back and forth posted there and for once had a notion to speak up and answer a few long dangling questions about kiss me, judas - particularly the movie, which is in the early stages of full throttle - and about the lost phineas book which is currently creeping toward regular publication like some beautiful dead thing rising from the pit. nothing much, just hello and nice to meet ya. thanks to craig for the ever kind words. thanks to dennis over at the palahniuk cult site for propping up that interview, which as far as I know is still among the living there and can be found by navigating along the path of least resistance. thing is, I was feeling a hell of a lot smarter and more biblical and less like a car wreck yesterday, and had more to say. then as I’m decompressing after work and well into my second glass of cheap red this evening I got a handsome invite from craig to represent as his guest blogger - not the most impure request I ever had but damn near - imagine those words coming from the lips of a fat man with bad prison ink named anthony… anyway. so now I’m wandering in like a blind guy in traffic. nothing else to say that I didn’t already spew over at craig’s site, but I will say this, some nights when it’s pushing 2 am and I’m working on the lost book or lately revising the judas script, it occurs to me that a little dialogue would be very cool, if only to get out of my own echoing head for a while. so I’m just gonna shut up now and see where this thing takes me.

if it walks like a duck,

-wcb