David Galef 
1959-
Major Works
Novels
- Flesh. New York: The Permanent
Press, 1995.
- Turning Japanese. New York: The
Permanent Press, 1998.
- How to Cope with Suburban Stress (to be published
Short Story Collections:
Children's Books
- The Little Red Bicycle. Illus. Carol
Nicklaus. New York: Random House, 1988.
- Tracks. Illus. Tedd Arnold. New
York: William Morrow, 1996.
Criticism
- Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading.
Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1998. [Editor and contributor.] 
- The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor
Characters. University
Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press,
1993.
Poetry
- Even Monkeys Fall from Trees, & Other Proverbs
(1987)
- Even a Stone Buddha can Talk: The Wit and Wisdom of
Japanese Proverbs (2000)
Other
- 20 Over 40 (edited by David Galef
and Beth Weinhouse, 2006)
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Biography of
David Galef
By Baxter Billingsley (SHS)
David Galef was born on March 27, 1959, in New York, to Harold
Galef and Winifred Galef. He attended high school at Scarsdale
High School and later got his B.A. from Princeton University
in English and creative writing. Galef went to Columbia
University for graduate school where he received his M.A. and
his Ph.D.
Galef has lived many places, including Japan where he taught
English for one year. He then became an English professor
at the University of Mississippi in  1989,
teaching twentieth-century British literature, modernism,
creative writing, speculative fiction, narrative
theory, and stylistics. Galef has written and published
more than sixty short stories in magazines around the world.
Some of the magazines include the British Punch
to the Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian
Prism International, and the American Shenandoah.
He has also had many essays appear in publications such as the
New York Times and published numerous books.
Galef has received many awards for his writings, including
the Henfield Foundation Grant, Mississippi Arts Commission award,
Writers Exchange Award, Ragdale and Yaddo fellowships.
Today, David Galef still lives in Oxford, Mississippi,
teaches in the English Department of Ole Miss, and loves
to ride bicycles. He is a member of the U.S. Cycling Federation
and the Mississippi Cycling Association.
2008 UPDATE: David Galef is currently the administrator of
the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.
He has has published over seventy stories in magazines ranging
from the the British Punch to the
Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism
International, the American Shenandoah,
The Gettysburg Review, and many other
places.
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A Review of Laugh
Track 
by Baxter Billingsley (SHS)
Laugh Track is a collection of fifteen short
stories that range from the world of a psychotic
to the world of an elementary school teacher All the stories
have goals to be reached by the characters, and the ending results
are unpredictable. The settings of the stories put the
reader in believable atmospheres to which everyone can relate.
The story endings definitely fulfill the reader’s expectations.
Overall, the book is worth the time to read as it supplies
the reader with entertainment and food for thought.
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Interview with
David Galef
by Baxter Billingsley (December
9, 2002)
1. When and where were you born? What are your
parents' names? What high school and college did you attend?
New York, 1959. Harold Galef and Winifred Galef, nee
Kron. Scarsdale High School, Princeton University, and Columbia
University (for grad school).
2. Who is your favorite author/authors?
Too many out there. Vladimir Nabokov, Annie Proulx,
W. H. Auden....
3. What author influenced you the most?
Oddly, P. G.Wodehouse, probably because I read
all ninety-plus of his books when I was an adolescent.
4. When did you become interested in writing?
Since I could wield a pencil, but I started writing
original fiction around age seventeen.
5. What kind of student where you in school?
Bright, talkative, annoying.
6. How long did it take you to write Laugh Track?
Since the stories range from twenty years ago to a
few years ago, I suppose you could say "two decades," but
interspersed with a lot of other projects.
7. Are you working on a new book right now? If so, do
you have a title for it and what is it about?
My third novel, How to Cope with Suburban Stress,
about the intersection of a decaying suburban marriage and
a pedophile.
8. Have you received any awards for your writings?
Henfield Foundation Grant, Mississippi Arts Commission
award, Writers Exchange Award, Ragdale and Yaddo fellowships.
9. Do you have any advice for aspiring writers?
Write and then write some more. Practice improves
your style in every field I can think of. So does watching the
pros, which in this field means reading.
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Related
Websites
Galef
is on faculty at Ole Miss.
Southern
Scribe interviews David Galef.
Dear
Reader by Square Books discusses Galef's Laugh Track.
Ole
Miss Writers Page has Galef information.
Slushpile
has interview with Galef (2005).
Read
Mississippi Breakdown, a short story by Galef on
storySouth.
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Bibliography
"David Galef." The Mississippi Writer's Page. 2002.
9 December 2002. <http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/galef_david>.
Galef, David. E-mail Interview. 9 December 2002.
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