The Pagan Authors
The Pagan Authors Sean Connolly and Xavier y Zungie have been involved in publishing, film, radio and television for years.
Zungie pens mostly absurd satires and squibs, and his Stoleniferous series steals phrases and abstract neologisms from magazine articles and weaves them into quirky paragraphs. He hails from Baltimore where he bathed in the glow of The Johns Hopkins University library and broke bread with the head of the university’s writers program. He grew up in the small towns of the Rust Belt besieged by trees, did a hitch in the army, where he attended the University of Maryland, consumed more alcohol in Key West than Christopher Hitchens ever could have, wrote scripts for TV pilots in Manhattan, and is now the principal editor for the pagan forecasting web site The Orbitology.
Connolly grew up in Pittsburgh and attended the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in the History & Philosophy of Science, played persiflage with Jesuits in West Virginia and lost, found his true self by aligning himself with other mavericks to start a radio station and weekly arts magazine in the Steel City, receiving a grant from the PA Council for the Arts to write his first novel published by Hardscrabble Press (University of New England). He also received a NEA Media grant to write and produce his radio cartoon, One Of Those Days.
He met Zungie in a bar he managed in Vietnam outside of Saigon. Together with Zungie and other scholars, both sedentary and nomadic, they assembled the rare documents of an unknown bible from an inaccessible canyon in the Western Hemisphere to create and publish The Book Of Godom & Somorrah.
| SELECTED WORKS |
| Literary Nonsense The Shore Mysteries Strange tales strangely told in concise twists and turns with improbable events and resolved through odd happenings and by slippery detectives who can’t wait to get back to the beach. Stoleniferous Xavier y Zungie steals literary phrases and lifts foggy abstractions from elegant magazines combining both with his own sense of the absurd to confront the nonsense we experience every day. Satire The Book Of Godom & Somorrah The history and antics of the gods and goddesses who dwell on Thorn Prick Peak and how they created the universe and provided guidance for the people on the earth through the forecasting Icons found in The Orbitology. Fiction A Great Place To Die “A spell-binding tour de force of diabolical dialogue” -Barry Gifford “In vino verbosity, as they say,” wisecracks one of Sean Connolly’s main characters in this slightly surreal, darkly comic novel about the search for constancy in a very inconstant world. Charles and Garth are downing drinks at the Black Dog Inn, but, in a dramatic technique reminiscent of the classic film My Dinner with Andre, their dialogue transports us far beyond those walls through the adventures of rogues and rapscallions in such far-flung locales as Baltimore, New York, Key West, and ultimately Cambridge, Massachusetts. Audio Cartoons “One of Those Days” A series of zany radio cartoons, each episode running about two minutes, staring a nameless dog down by the fireplug, his master Joey The First, his wife, Delicatessen Jill, her companion JoJo The Chicken, and all their neighbors who love to party out on the streets. QUICK LINKS Authors Guild Advocates for published authors since 1912 Authors Guild Directory A compendium of member websites |
