Istvan Bio 10
Let us workshop this author bio where I reveal a quirky but sensible bathroom habit of mine
M. A. Istvan Jr., fat-positive founder of Safe Space Press, is a hunk of jade who has been abraded (but into an arrowhead) by the circumambient assaults on academic and artistic freedom. Istvan’s record of fiction-writing is as thin as a cheap paperback—and he likes it that way (non-fat-phobically thin, of course)! Poetry is where Istvan's heart truly lies, especially the aphoristic kind. He is all about packing a gut punch into just a few words. Lacking patience for the respectable craft of baiting and hooking readers with illusionist tricks (whether it be opening with a pet in peril, or having the narrator say things readers know to be false), Istvan emphasizes the raw content itself—yes, at great risk of alienating mass audiences, a risk only heightened to extremes of jobless ostracism when coupled with his refusal to truckle to an ideology just because it is politically correct. Istvan's nonconformity does not stop at his literary pursuits. It extends to the most private places of the private sphere. He wonders, in fact, if others out there spit—a sort of non-touching lick-spit—on the toilet paper before a post-poop wipe. He has been engaging in this little rebellion since at least six or seven, clearly having recognized the importance of including some form of derrière moisture in a 1980’s home where baby wipes were neither available nor encouraged as part of toilet hygiene.
This piece is unpublished