NORMAN SPINRAD



Updated August 2006


MEXICA

Hardcover published by Little Brown in the UK in November 2005, in the US by Trafagar Square in April 2006, Abacus trade paperback to be be published in the UK September 2006.









Film "coverage"

There's now a project to produce a film of MEXICA, and I was asked
to write "coverage" in connection with it.  This is a short document to
be used to interest financers, actors, directors, etc.  But it  will also give readers 
of the novel a good idea of what they would be reading, so here it is.
 



FREE!!

Read, download, copy, distribute a sample of MEXICA

Here it's of neccesity an HTML file..  If you'd like an RTF version,
 email me and I'll send it



TIMESSQUARE.COM column

I've just started an online column for the webzine TIMESSQUARE.COM

This will be an ongoing column with new stuff every couple of weeks
or so and the previous columns archived.  Technically the work is
still in progress, and later there will be a direct email link and blog.
You can go directly to it via the link below:

OSAMA THE GUN

The first column, TO KNOW YOUR ENEMY, was the direct inspiration for the novel I have just completed, OSAMA THE GUN. To learn how and why, click on the link to the column.



HE WALKED AMONG US

A VERY RADICAL EXPERIMENT

THE ENTIRE NOVEL NOW AVAILABLE AS SHAREWARE!!


The print-on-demand and pay for download editons of HE WALKED AMONG US did no better than most such editions, I'm still looking for a major conventional publisher,and still passionately believe in this novel. And so now I am making THE WHOLE NOVEL available free! Well not exactly.. It's shareware in the form of an RTF file, and it's an email attachment, not a download., and therefore much shorter than HTML or pdf, and not posted on this website. Anyone who wants one can email me at: normanspinrad@compuserve.com or use the direct email link at the top of this web site or the one below for convenience, and I'll send you HE WALKED AMONG US. Anyone and everyone who gets the HE WALKED AMONG US file by whatever means is encouraged to duplicate it, send it to friends and any other interested partties, post it on web sites and newsgroups, and take part in this experiment in the "viral distribution" of what may be the world's first shareware novel.



OR DOWNLOAD DIRECTLY FROM:

Since I'm encouraging website posting, I'll be listing sites here from which HE WALKED AMONG US can be directly downloaded from as I'm informed:





"PIRATE THIS BOOK!"


Most newsgroups and websites pirating novels are not in it for the money since there isn't any. They see themselves as providing a service to readers. The writers of the books see it as theft. It seems to me this shareware viral distribution can bridge the gap.

So all you pirates out there are invited to pirate HE WALKED AMONG US provided you post the complete file including the copyright and shareware notice. I'll even send you the file upon request and post its URL on your site here!


INDEX

Gateway to interior pages

stories, radio play, cookbook, news, covers, more. Including my eyewitness account of 9/11. I was there, and up close.



ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

publishing, lies, and real estate

Why I find myself trapped in the Big Apple



AUTOBIOGRAPHY UPDATE 2005

An update of my Gale Press Autobiography (see Index)which tells the full publishing tale of how I landed in the predicatment of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK.

And more than en passant, and update on what American publishing has become


A direct link to the original Autobiography


Some day I hope to expand these Gale Press autobiographies into a full book. Space constraints mean that many many things have been left out.


THE DRUID KING

Published in the UK by Little Brown in February 2003 and by Time Warner in mass market paperback in August 2004. Published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US in August 2003 and in Vintage trade paperback in Augusty 2004.


Vintage trade paperback cover


Time Warner UK Mass Market Paperback Cover





Knopf in-house interview

More far-ranging that the usual in-house interview, though centered, of course, on THE DRUID KING.


Und auf Deutsch bei Goldmann (12/002) als DER DRUIDENKOENIG erschienen



Reviews, will be updated from time to time.




HE WALKED AMONG US

published in German as

DIE TRANSFORMATTION

Heyne Verlag, my main German publisher for years, published HE WALKED AMONG US in German. And the German edition is the first edition


INTERVIEW AUF DEUTSCH

This is a recent and extensive interview in German concerning HE WALKED AMONG US and other matters



BUG JACK BARRON

My classic novel of sex, politics, television, and immortality once more available in the US from Overlook Press.

Overlook Press cover


and also available from Toxic Press in Britain

(aussi nouvelle edition francaise chez J'ai Lu)

JACK BARRON ET L'ETERNITE


WOODY ALLEN interview

The full English language transcript of an interview with Woody Allen commissioned by the French newspaper LIBERATION and published in shorter French translation there in connection with the opening of his new film CELEBRITY. As you'll see, we sort of ended up interviewing each other. It's been suggested that some magazine might like to publish the English version, since it's appeared only in French. Rights are available. E-mail through this site. I also have a one hour tape of the complete interview. Near air-quality, done with pretty good equipment. Radio rights available.


LIVE PERFORMANCE AT THE TRANSMUSICAL FESTIVAL IN RENNES

I performed live as a vocalist, 4 pieces as lead, 1 as backing, at the Transmusical festival in Rennes. Packed house in club-like atmosphere, 500 +. Went over well. Tremendous rush! If you dare and are patient, you can hear it all via the web and MP3 by clicking the link below. And/or click on "More" for further details first.





BIBLIOGRAPHIES


ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY

the best I've found


BIBLIOGRAPHIE FRANCAISE

par Jean-Jacques GIRARDOT

tres complet


BIBLIOGRAPHIE AUF DEUTSCH


ITALIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY

by Ernesto VEGETTI

by Ernesto VEGETTI