Splice will publish my novel, In the Suavity of the Rock, in June of 2024, with a limited edition hardcover as well. Pre-orders are now open.

Zerogram Press published a new and expanded edition of See What I See in April 2021, with an introduction by scholar Steven Moore. Short teaser from the unpublished 10K word essay on Eric Rohmer.

Anthony Domestico reviews See What I See in Commonweal

LATEST WORK: No Way to Bresson – The Smart Set

Serge Daney and Today’s Cinema – LA Review of Books

“In Relationship” (fiction) – Hobart

Faulkner’s Ghost in US Fiction – Cleveland Review of Books

Three short fictions at Propagule 

The Year of Hamaguchi (Japanese director) – Verso

While Reading Ingeborg Bachmann’s MalinaBerfrois

“The Latest Scar in Time” – On the Seawall

“Hardwickian” – The Baffler

“A New Scar in Time” – The Smart Set

On Dreyer’s Gertrud – In Review Online

“On Being Looked At” – Oxonian Review

The story “The 100th Anniversary of The Waste Land” is at The Rupture

One Shot in Carlos Reygadas’s Cinema – Caesura Magazine

See What I See-related:

Beyond the Zero Podcast interviewed me

Michigan Quarterly Review reviews See What I See

Dialogue with Gabriel Blackwell about our books at Full-Stop

Brad Listi interviewed me for his Otherppl Podcast

Feelish Bookish Podcast interviewed me about Socrates on the Beach and the state of large press vs. small press

Steven Moore’s Introduction to See What I See is now online in the first issue of Exacting Clam

Interview at 15 Questions

Paul Skinner reviewed See What I See at his blog

Chris Via did a video review of See What I See at his well-known Leaf by Leaf channel

Garielle Lutz interviewed me with one question at 3am Magazine

Podcast at 42 Minutes–a conversation about Gass, Gaddis, The Tunnel, reading, and writing, etc

Volume One Brooklyn has posted an excerpt from the “Paris Doesn’t Belong to Us” essay about honeymooning in Paris and going to Parc des Buttes-Chaumont to find a location from Eric Rohmer’s The Aviator’s Wife.

Excerpt from See What I See: “The One and Only Autobiographical Writer” in Berfois

Interview with Jim Gauer about See What I See and Novel Explosives

Michael Dirda reviews See What I See at The Washington Post, along with essay books by D.H. Lawrence and Emmanuel Carrère

I am editing a new Internet journal called Socrates on the Beach.

Further Work:

“Burning the Days” – a short fiction at Berfois

“Bedtime” – a short fiction at Ligeia Magazine

On Reading Fleur Jaeggy’s Sweet Days of Discipline – LA Review of Books

Why Sebald? – Berfois

The Story “Just Give Me a Funeral” is at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

“Merrill Stein: Wallace Stevens Scholar” a fiction, is at Twelve Winters Journal

“The Road Not Taken?” – Berfois

Review of Kjell Askildsen’s “Everything Like Before” – LA Review of Books

“Time to Say Goodbye to for the Summer” – LA Review of Books

“Jennifer Jason Leigh and Me” – LA Review of Books.

“Handke and Time-Travel” – The Review of Uncontemporary Fiction

“My Father through the Mann” (on Anthony Mann’s Man of the West) at The Smart Set

Review of Mark de Silva’s Points of Attack at Full-Stop

“Returning to The Dreamlife of Angels” Erick Zonca’s 1998 film – Caesura Magazine

Fiction at On the Seawall: “Response”

Back to Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict – New Critique

The First Paragraph of Henry James’s “The Story In It”

To Tell or Not to Tell – LA Review of Books

“Highlight” – The Smart Set

The video of  @WUSTLlibraries discussion on William Gass’s The Tunnel

On Jen Craig’s “Panthers and the Museum of Fire” – Volume One Brooklyn

On Alexander Theroux’s An Adultery – Full-Stop

“The First Movements in William Gass’s The Tunnel” – The Tunnel at 25

“The Wait” – Fiction at The Kenyon Review

Excerpt from novel Eyes on Other Days at Splice

Review of Alexander Theroux: A Fan’s Notes at The Arts Fuse

On Gerald Murnane’s A Million Windows at Splice

An epistolary piece on reading Faulkner’s The Hamlet with Genese Grill at 3am Magazine (3 parts)

“Past as Epilogue” at The Smart Set

I interviewed writer/translator Genese Grill at LA Review of Books

Oh for Antonioni! at Lapsus Lima

“Re-discovering Patrick White” at Music & Literature

Meretricious Marriage Story – LA Review of Books

“Baby Sharks” – LA Review of Books

“Child as Parent” at Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood

“Guy Davenport as Exemplar” at Essay Daily

“Why Write?” at The Millions

“On or About”-excerpt from See What I See at 3am Magazine

  Splice Interview about writing/reading Part I     

Part 2

The Wrong Things List (fiction) – 3am Magazine

Unappeasable and Peregrine: Eyes Wide Shut – The Smart Set

On Marianne Moore’s “Silence” – LA Review of Books

“Descant” a story at Columbia Journal

“Paris Doesn’t Belong to Us” in the anthology We’ll Never Have Paris, edited by Andrew Gallix, with more than 70 writers, including Brian Dillon, David Hayden, and Evan Lavender-Smith

Review of The William H. Gass Reader in the North Dakota Quarterly

On The Shining – The Smart Set

Nearer My Hong Sang-soo to Me – MUBI

William Gaddis’ Compositional Self – LA Review of Books

“Debut” a story at The Collagist

The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport – LA Review of Books

Reading The Cantos – Big Other

A Year With Wallace Stevens – 3am Magazine

On First Reformed – Big Other

On Eating Combos – The Smart Set

Return to Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival – LA Review of Books

“A Modern” (fiction) – Berfrois

Autumn in New York – LA Review of Books

Reviewings in Light of the Zeitgeist – 3am Magazine

Remembering William H. Gass – LA Review of Books

On Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon – MUBI

Interview with John Haskell – The Millions

Bergman’s Spell – MUBI

Helafizzles – 3am Magazine

“The Condoleezza Rice Fan Club Visits Akron, Ohio” at The Collagist

On Toni Erdmann and it’s ending at LA Review of Books  

“On or About” – a short essay, at MUBI

“Manhattan,” a short fiction, is at Juked

 Mark Greif Interview at LA Review of Books

On Divorce at Ozy.com

“Take This Waltz” Then Move On?: Breakups in the Age of Selfish at Mubi.com

Review of Joseph Tabbi’s William Gaddis biography at Kenyon Review

On William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own at The Millions

Essay at 3am Magazine – All Hues in His Controlling

Arts Fuse Review of My Brooklyn Writer Friend

Brooklyn Rail Review of My Brooklyn Writer Friend

Interview at The Collagist 

A review of William Gass’s Eyes at 3am Magazine

Interview at Electric Literature

At Fanzine a short essay, “Envy, the Unsuccessful Writer’s Friend”

At MUBI, Mister Fincher and Monsieur Dreyer, cinematic despair and rapture

At Medium/Human Parts, a piece on Internet Dating

At MUBI, On Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy

At MUBI, four new pieces: Mr. Turner, Boyhood, and CriticismEric Rohmer’s A Winter’s Tale, Carl Dreyer’s Gertrud on its 50th Anniversary, and a look at French director Jean Gremillion

Short story “Such a Sweet Meat” is in The Collagist

A review of Eric Rohmer: Interviews is in the Summer Issue of Film Quarterly 

An essay on Paul Thomas Anderson, envy, and space in film at the LA Review of Books

On Louise Gluck – The Millions

Greg Gerke’s work has appeared in Tin House, Film Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, and other publications. See What I See, a book of essays, and Especially the Bad Things, stories, were both published by Splice in the Autumn of 2019.

gregorygerke@yahoo.com