SHORT WORKS BY LINTON ROBINSON

I greatly appreciate your interest in my short pieces. For most of my life, most of my writing has been less than book length--primarily articles to make a living, but also various essays and short exercises, may of them experimental in nature. In these collections I make little distinction between "fiction" and "non". My life indicates to me that creation and "fact" are not particularly discrete and subject to large twilight areas in-between. And, of course, such interzones fascinate me. Many of my shorts were first published as articles or columns in publications, ranging between local weeklies (such as Seattle Weekly, San Diego Reader, City Beat, Revolt in Style, EastBay Express) to to national magazines (Penthouse, Science, American Photographer, Hustler, Biker, Harpers). Others are more conventional fiction, much of it is somewhere in between. THe categories and genres don't really interest me much. What I do, I tell stories.

MORE TITLES TO COME

My recent brush with mortality has persuaded me to get all my writing out where people can read it, and to the end I'll be putting out a lot of collections this year, maybe as many as a dozen. I'd love to keep you notified about new releases and if you want that, please sign up for my News List with the button on this page. Naturally, I don't abuse your confidence or interest. Why would I? You're the reason I exist.
THE TIJUANA NOCTURNES SERIES
Tijuana's underside and underpinnings from the eye of a denizen. These collections include work that was published in periodicals on both sides of the imaginary line that separates so much. More "street" than the essays in "Imaginary Lines", and an excellent companion to the "Borderland" series.
TIJUANA NOCTURNES

The most polished and "short story like" of the Tijuana pieces, a roll through the lurid-lit darkness of the interzone. But not, it's been pointed out, without a leavening of humor and redemption.
SKELETON CREW

If you do it right, every day is the Day Of The Dead. A bare bones collection of skeletal tales.
COYOTE CITY

A Mexican saying is that trash blows North until it hits the fence. But others would say it's a dog of a town that isn't tamed, but slinks along and survives where other breeds can't.
RED ZONE

They may rezone "The Zone", but there is no plastering over Tijuana's storied wild and bawdy side. But who would want to?

COLLECTIONS OF SHORT WORKS
TRIPTYCHS

Collected over several years, these three-lobed stories are experimental in concept, but without the posturing of much x-lit. Triple-header tales.
GUYStuff

Reading for and about an often-neglected reader minority: men. Ranging from raunchy bits previously published in "Hustler" and "Biker" to fiction that pokes under the hood of masculinity.
IMAGINARY LINES

The Mexico/California border seen from both sides by two very different writers. All previously published in periodicals like the San Diego "Reader" and "Harpers".
FLESH WOUNDS

Collected from the syndicated cult column of the Nineties: taut, teeth-clenching, harrowing stories about the human condition, and how close it flows beneath the skin.
SHORT CUTS

This compendium is actually a traditional set of short fiction, like normal writers do. Spanning years and moods, but above all...short.
PROPERTIES OF LIGHT

Although conceptually a true hyper-novel, the work can also be viewed as a collection of short pieces: each a description of a photograph.

OTHER TYPES OF BOOKS BY LIN

I also do novels and poetry, as well as some interesting "how to" titles and notorious titles on Mexican Slang. You can browse that's available or coming up on these pages.
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Poetry has been a major part of my writing from the first days I ever wrote anything down for my own pleasure or the pleasure of others. My first creative writing was probably a poem. I strongly identified with poetry in college, and it was the driving force behind my publishing the "Eidolon" journal, my involvement in the revolutionary "Dogtown Poetry Theater", and my publication of a line of poetry as small "City Lights" style books.
I am going to publish several volumes this year, starting with some innovative ways of publishing "Engines of Desire", my flagship book of poems.


My main thrust at present is book-length fiction. I think you'll see a strong line of novels on that page, but there is much more coming this year and next. I feel comfortable as a career novelist, and only regret I didn't start earlier.