Who he? 
He’s Memphian Rob McGowan, circa ’69, in a pic taken at Oakland Army Base on his return from Vietnam, and he wore the “PEACE NOW” button under the lapel of his uniform. The Savage Kick, a British journal specializing in murder and mayhem, is running that photo, along with one of McGowan’s more gruesome stories, “Worse Feeling There Is” — uncharacteristically gruesome, he’d like it known — a story from McGowan’s yet to be published NAM: Things That Weren’t True and Other Stories. (For the title story from that collection, see the summer 2007 issue of South Dakota Review.)
Less gruesome: McGowan’s art-world short story “A Clutter of Old Papers” (from his yet to be published UNTITLED: Artist Stories), a story that will appear this fall in the Connecticut Review.
What else is there from McGowan, who’s been writing like mad and getting published like crazy the past few years?
A personal essay in Etchings, an Australian journal, is already out, and there’s another personal essay in Wild Apples (out of Massachusetts).
