below are some of jay michaelson's recent fiction projects:
 

The Night Watchman & the Hundred Thousand Golems
This short story is the winner of the 2002 Dornstein Prize in short fiction.  It is one of a series
of short stories on faith and desire, tentatively entitled The Inflected Letters.
 

ALEXISM (chapters 1-4)
Alexism is a 350-page novel that is like Portnoy's Complaint meets London Calling; Iggy Pop meets
the Tao te Ching; A Separate Peace meets Kabbalah, wherein questions of the representations of
memory intersect with those of to why lesbians are invariably cool, and in which Alex, our young
protagonist, plays naked basketball, falls off a mountainside near Sharm-al-Sheikh, invents religion,
does or does not sleep with his best friend Mike, rolls around in broken glass, and finally
comes to his own understanding of what the grand mess is about.
Complete manuscript available on request.
 

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SOLITUDE
The Architecture of Solitude is a kind of queer Notes from the Underground, about a closeted and
intellectual attorney living a solitary life in contemporary Washington, D.C.  Unwillingly thrust out
of the gilded cage of his own ideas, the story's hero finds himself confronting some of his deepest
fears when he picks up a young hitchhiker on a cross-country road trip.  Here are the first several
chapters.
 
 

THE LIFE OF THE MIND (Buddha Zero)
The Life of the Mind  is a series of monologues, first staged in New York City in March, 2002,
dealing with the subjects of mourning, loneliness, and anger.  In a sort of hybrid of Eric
Bogosian and Eve Ensler, the play knits is disparate themes together in the context of a
single afternoon's walk through New York City.
 

EIGHT TEENAGERS
Selection from Condominium: 75 Stories, an experimental novel completed
in 1995.
 
 

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