Nonfiction
Travis has twice written book-length manuscripts of nonfiction, once for a a dissertation committee and once for everyone else:
The Bohemian Horizon: 21st Century Little Magazines and the Limits of the Countercultural Artist-Activist — Dissertation for a PhD in Communications at Columbia University — 2016 — Available at CU’s Academic Commons
Authentic Occupy: Occupy Wall Street and the Politics of Authenticity — Thought Catalog — 2013 — Available via Amazon and Audible
He has also published a number of essays over the years, mostly at Blunderbuss Magazine, where he served as Editor-in-Chief from its inception in 2012 until its demise in 2018. Here are a few of his favorites:
“The Berlin Blues” — A dead friend. An orphaned novel. An escape to the playground on the Spree.
“Revolutionary Twee” — A bestselling book claims that twee culture is politicizing the youth and changing the world for the better, but can sweaters & sweetness really cure what ails us?
“Fragments of Charlie” — I am not Charlie Hebdo. I am with Charlie Hebdo.
“Your Holiday Think Piece” — Not an ‘essay,’ per se. More a surreal journey into the internet’s jabbering maw.
“An Advent Calendar of Millennial Ennui” — 25 days of generational malaise.
“On ‘On Smarm’” — An overlong response to an overlong Gawker post.
Fiction
Travis’ first novel, Where the Devil Don’t Stay, is a bildungsroman of class rage and knitting circles set in the post-9/11 South. It is available only in his musty desk drawer, which may or may not be for the best.
Though his interest has moved toward the visual in recent years, he has vague intentions to return to text-based storytelling at some point in the future. Until that day comes, tide yourself over with a few short stories he’s written under various names:
“The Last Ever Party in the Drowning Parishes” — Queen Mob’s Teahouse — Rising tides come for an anarchic corner of the bayou.
“Yarnivores” — KGB Bar Lit — Yarn, malt liquor, and employer-enforced phony British accents.
“The Tragedy of Gary Moretti” — KGB Bar Lit — The incidental death of an anarchist, told in fragments.