Jason Weiss is the author of Writing At Risk: Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers (University of Iowa Press, 1991) and the upcoming novel Hustlers And Princes. He has translated Luisa Futoransky's The Duration Of The Voyage: Selected Poems (Junction, 1997) and Marcel Cohen's Mirrors (Sun & Moon/Green Integer, 1998). He is currently completing a long study, Distant Mirrors: a century of Latin American writers in Paris and he is also editing the Brion Gysin Reader (Wesleyan University Press). He has also written liner notes for records by Steve Lacy, the Rova Saxophone Quartet and Ivo Perelman.