The Contortionist's Handbook

Clevenger's debut novel, The Contortionist's Handbook, was first published in 2002. It is the story of John Dolan Vincent, a prodigious forger who has been detained for a psychiatric interview following a near-fatal painkiller overdose. As the narrator bluffs his way through the interview in order to avoid being involuntarily institutionalized, he tells the reader his true story - the one he is not telling the psychiatrist - revealing both his past and the true nature of his circumstances. The Contortionist's Handbook has since been translated into five languages - German, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese - as well as published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins. Several other translations are forthcoming, including Russian and Japanese. Film rights for The Contortionist's Handbook were optioned in 2007 by Greenestreet Films. Miguel Sapochnik has been linked as director and Channing Tatum as producer and star.

Dermaphoria

In 2005, MacAdam/Cage released Clevenger's second novel, Dermaphoria, the diary of an amnesiac LSD chemist who becomes addicted to a drug which synthesizes the feeling of human touch. The film rights to Dermaphoria were optioned in October 2006 by independent producers George Griffith, Ross Clarke and Teryn Fogel.

The Contortionist's Handbook

• Hardcover, 2002; ISBN 1-931561-15-X
• Trade Paper, 2003; ISBN 1-931561-48-6

Dermaphoria

• Hardcover, 2005; ISBN 1-931561-75-3
• Trade Paper, 2006; ISBN 1-931561-75-3

Official sites

• Official site of Craig Clevenger
• The Velvet The official online community of Craig Clevenger, Will Christopher Baer and Stephen Graham Jones

Interviews

• Curled Up
• MookyCh!ck
• Movie Poopshoot 1
• Movie Poopshoot 2
• Professor Barnhardt's Journal 1
• Professor Barnhardt's Journal 2
• TastesLikeChicken
• Suicide Girls I
• Suicide Girls II

Audio

• KQED's "The Writer's Block
• Craig Clevenger reading from Dermaphoria at 'Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn while on tour in October, 2005
• Misnomer Radio's Logan Rapp interviews Craig Clevenger.

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