Tonight's guest is Robert Guffey
Robert is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University - Long Beach. His latest book is UNTIL THE LAST DOG DIES (Night Shade/Skyhorse, 2017), a darkly satirical novel about a young stand-up comedian who must adapt as best he can to an apocalyptic virus that destroys only the humor centers of the brain. His previous books include the journalistic memoir CHAMELEO: A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY OF INVISIBLE SPIES, HEROIN ADDICTION, AND HOMELAND SECURITY (OR Books, 2015), which Flavorwire has called, "By many miles, the weirdest and funniest book of 2015." A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he has also written a collection of novellas entitled SPIES & SAUCERS (PS Publishing, 2014). His first book of nonfiction, CRYPTOSCATOLOGY: CONSPIRACY THEORY AS ART FORM was published in 2012. He's written stories and articles for numerous magazines and anthologies, among them The Believer, Black Dandy, Catastrophia, The Chiron Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mailer Review, Pearl, The Pedestal, Phantom Drift, Postscripts, and The Third Alternative.