Biography
Mark Fishman's short stories have been published in the following literary magazines: Carolina Quarterly, the Black Warrior Review, the Mississippi Review, the Chicago Review, Insomnia, Frank (Paris), Purple Fiction (Paris), among others. Short articles of non-fiction have appeared frequently in Purple Fashion (Paris). He was nominated by the Carolina Quarterly for the General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers. He is the English-language editor of Les Cahiers Purple (Lisbon).
France, a bilingual, limited-edition book, with photographs by Elein Fleiss, was published in Sept 2008 by Matsu Books, Paris.
This is his first novel.
NO. 22 PLEASURE CITY
Novel
A Japanese detective agency in Midwest America; a sex triangle with the vampish Angela (who gets herself imprisoned in a bathroom, just to learn what love is) at its apex, and love-sick Pohl and lust-warped Burnett at the receiving ends; a Fat Man devouring a huge luncheon amidst the splendours of his garden; and has-been vixen Violet seeking justice and revenge. These are just some of the elements of NO. 22 PLEASURE CITY, a novel that ranges in flavour between Japanese manga, pulp fiction and tongue-in-cheek pornography. Written in beautifully-structured and pared-down language, which has the effect of wrapping up a bomb in a silk-lined box, the novel is a story of betrayal, obsession, rejection, friendship, and - ultimately - redemption. MS available. 152 pp.
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