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The Ugly


The Ugly The Ugly, is the story of Muzhduk the Ugli the Fourth, a member of a lost tribe of boulder-throwing Slovaks living in the mountains of Siberia whose land is stolen by American lawyers. He is sent on a quest to Harvard Law School to learn how to defeat the lawyers. Represented by the Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency.

Short Stories


The River Lena The River Lena, first chapter of The Ugly, published in Transition Magazine, Breadloaf nominee to Best New American Voices anthology.
Pulling Shadows Pulling Shadows, published in Fiction International Fiction International, winner of PEN/Nob Hill award.
*Bureaucracy, in Literary Imagination: Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Bureaucracy, published in Literary Imagination: a Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
Chicago Quarterly Review -- Metropolitan Avenue Metropolitan Avenue, in Chicago Quarterly Review.
Chicago Quarterly Review -- Before the Law: Rebuttal Before the Law: a Rebuttal, in Chicago Quarterly Review.
Rain, published in Phantasmagoria Rain, in Phantasmagoria.

Nonfiction


Conversation with Damien Hirst, published in C-Arts Magazine.
Fear, published in C-Arts Magazine.
Happiness, published in C-Arts Magazine.
Wianta: Love, published in C-Arts Magazine.
The World Wide Web of Word of Mouth, published in C-Arts Magazine.

The Beauty of the Lie, published in C-Arts Magazine.
Art as a Lifestyle, published in C-Arts Magazine.
Handbags of the Apocalypse, in C-Arts Magazine.
Astari: Hers, in C-Arts Magazine.
Suklu: Reading Objects, in Gaya Art News.
Synthetic Times: Media Art Now, in C-Arts Magazine.
The Other Shoe, in C-Arts Magazine.
Asia Unbound: New York's Asian Contemporary Art Week, in C-Arts Magazine.
Art and Automobile: BMW's Art Cars, in C-Arts Magazine.
Michelle Swayne: Magnet Bali, in Harper's Bazaar.
Made Wianta: Sharp, in Gaya Art News.
Michelle Swayne: Yellow, But Not The Sun, in C-Arts Magazine.
Indonesian Art and the Primordial Androgyne, in C-Arts Magazine.
Michelle Swayne: From Tennessee to Indonesia, in The Tennessee Tribune.
Sisi Puitik Pada Seni Rupa Michelle Swayne, in Suardi Magazine (pseudonymous).
Yellow, But Not the Sun, in Gaya Art News.
Nino Mustica: 11 Totems, in Gaya Art News.
Anti-Aging: 15 Cemeti Artists, in Gaya Art News.
Art Review: Filippo Sciascia, in Harper's Bazaar.
Dinosaurs on the Roof, in The Globe and Mail.
Earthquake in the Himalayas, in Shambhala Sun.
Bali: Paradise Lost, in The Globe and Mail.
Paradise, in Liberty.
Nepal Porters, in The Globe and Mail.

Legal


Ethics, Morals and International Law, in The European Journal of International Law, Oxford University Press.
The Development of Legal Culture in the Czech Republic, in The Golden Gate Law Review.

Selected Columns


  • Zen and Potatoes, Harvard Law Record, February 16, 1996.

  • Holmes' Cow, Harvard Law Record, March 1, 1996.

  • Gropius' Flesh, Harvard Law Record, March 15, 1996.

  • Law and Nudity, Harvard Law Record, April 19, 1996.

  • Ying, Yang and Sex, Harvard Law Record, April 26, 1996.

  • Survival Guide; But, Harvard Law Record, September 13, 1996.

  • Nebuchadnezzar, Harvard Law Record, September 27, 1996.

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Harvard Law Record, October 4, 1996.

  • Toothless Bytes, Harvard Law Record, October 11, 1996.

  • Interviewing Chicken, Harvard Law Record, October 18, 1996.

  • Hide Away, Cover Up, Harvard Law Record, October 25, 1996.

  • Banana Leaves, Harvard Law Record, November 8, 1996.

  • Growling Humpty, Harvard Law Record, November 15, 1996.

  • Wooden Chairs, Harvard Law Record, November 22, 1996.

  • Santa's Hat, Harvard Law Record, December 6, 1996.

  • Listening to UFOs, Harvard Law Record, January 17, 1997.

  • The Horribles, Harvard Law Record, February 14, 1997.

  • A Pissoir of Androgynous Ghosts, Harvard Law Record, February 21, 1997.

  • Obituary, Harvard Law Record, February 28, 1997.

  • Cheez Whiz, Harvard Law Record, March 14, 1997.

  • Apocalyptic Zippering, Harvard Law Record, April 4, 1997.

  • Chronometric People, Harvard Law Record, April 11, 1997.

  • ...And Then He Piled Them Up In Piles, Harvard Law Record, April 18, 1997.

  • A Trip to the Land of the Law, Harvard Law Record, April 25, 1997.

  • Anomic Lawyers and Nomological Dog Food, Harvard Law Record, May 2, 1997.

  • Hung by Law (of Gravity), Harvard Law Record, January 15, 1999.

  • Elephants and Threes, Harvard Law Record, February 7, 1999.

  • Gotter(ver)dammerung, Harvard Law Record, February 2, 1999.

  • From Vibrators to Professors, Harvard Law Record, March 5, 1999.

  • A Real Story, Harvard Law Record, March 19, 1999.

  • Lex Est Summa Ratio In Exerptium Poohbium, Harvard Law Record, April 16, 1999 .

  • I'll Miss You Most of All, Scarecrow, Harvard Law Record, April 30, 1999.

Links

Things I like, friends’ sites, and such, organized anarchically (i.e., without paybacks, organization, or objectivity). Unfortunately, some of my favourite writers and artists don’t have their own websites, and so aren’t included here.

Gaya Art Space in Bali. Best art gallery in Indonesia, also includes gourmet Italian restaurant, bungalows on a jungle gorge, and a ceramic studio that supplies Bulgari and Armani Casa with some of their most unique pieces.

Ronin MMA in Ottawa. Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muai thai, and MMA — best martial arts club on the East Coast. In Ottawa, of all places.

NorthVanBJJ in Vancouver. Best BJJ on the West Coast. Not many other clubs where you get to roll with two black belts on a daily basis — one with a gold medal from the 2009 World Cup of BJJ in Brazil, the other with a gold from the 2008 US Open. Combine that with an incredibly friendly no-BS atmosphere, and you have a very special, very rare sort of marital arts club.

Agile Design Group in Canada. There are 3000 government buildings in Ottawa, and 32,000 possible barriers to the handicapped listed under Canadian accessibility laws. Whenever I find myself running a large city and in need of a fluidly intelligent system architecture to manage accessibility, I use Agile.

Stefan Sagmeister in Bali, New York, Austria, Australia; at TED conferences; on the cover of Rolling Stones’ albums; and in other randomly interesting places. I used to think design was the antithesis of art — or, at best, it’s ugly stepsister — until I saw Stefan’s work. Then I thought art needed to do some catching up.

Motor Power Company in Italy. I know everyone has their own favourite mechatronic systems manufacturer — only gelaterias, religions and illegal Chinese calisthenics engender a more fanatical devotion — but when I need a motor, robot, or motion-control system that will triple-lutz before picking a speck of dust out of my belly button, gently, two thousand times per second, I go to MPC.

Speaking of gelaterias, the best one is Gelateria Ugo, Via San Felice 24, Bologna, Italy. And Gaya has a brand new one. Everything from Italian hazelnuts to Balinese durian. Italians do make the best gelato.

Not the best pizza, though. Best pizza is in Brooklyn: Anna Maria Pizza on the corner of N.7th and Bedford, run by Mexicans. Sure it’s got the atmosphere of a hospital emergency room overrun by drunk hipsters, but the lasagna pizza is just about the perfect food — a full, meaty lasagna right on top of a pizza. It’s nearly impossible to get an Italian to even understand the beauty of that concept. If you can’t handle that sort of brick in the belly, try the spinach, roasted garlic and tomato slice.

Diane Greco in New York. [narcissism, vanity, exhibitionism, ambition, vanity, vanity, vanity]

James Allen Hall in and around the United States. Passion, not beauty. Obsessing about obsessing.

Ben Enoch in Tennessee. A collection of practical and useless information delivered in slack-jawed monologues.

Anna Solomon in Brooklyn. The who, the where, the what.

IrajIsaac Rahmin wherever there’s oil. When you just need to get you some petroleum processing.

Mark Madel in Bali and Amsterdam. For when you want to see how long you can maintain a meaningful relationship with a bracelet box, and other great interactive computer and electronic art.

Parker Meyer in Charleston and Amsterdam. Not just curb appeal. Includes chard and chives.

Laila Lalami in Los Angeles and Morocco.

C-Arts Magazine in Asia. First English-language pan-Asian art magazine. And, yeah, I write for them.

Amy Holman in the US. A poet and prose writer who helps other writers identify markets for their work.

Ru Freeman in the US. Dress the part and the role becomes you.

Webstep in Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim. When Slartibartfast built those fjords he used these guys for the software consulting. They’re that good. (Why is it that Vikings make the best techies?)

Debbie Kuan in the US. Poetry, art reviews, and short fiction.

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