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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.

Bucket o’ Quotes

These are in no particular order. A sort of ever-expanding personal library of favourite quotations.

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Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana.

–Groucho Marx

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Credo quia absurdum est.

–Tertullian

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The desire for security stands against every great and noble enterprise.

–Tacitus

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Man’s deepest social instinct is his antisocial instinct.

–Robert Musil

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The meaning of life is that it ends.

–Kafka

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Don’t bunch up.

–US Marine Corps Manual

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Society, like any collective, is a soulless entity. It is humanity that has been mechanised, almost mineralised.

–Ortega y Gasset

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When a lot of people agree about something, it’s either a stupid idea or a beautiful woman.

–Ortega y Gassett

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

–Friedrich Nietzsche

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The strongest man is he who stands alone in the world.

–Henrik Ibsen

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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

–Emerson

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Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here…Then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement, and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
–Alfred Sloan Jr.

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It’s good to keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
– Jacob Needleman

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