Joseph L. Flatley is an author and journalist who helped launch The Verge in 2011, where he was a senior features editor. His bylines have appeared in Counterpunch, The Kernel, and Pando.
His latest book, Convenience Stories, details one year working as a lottery machine repair man and all the characters (conspiracy theorists, occultists, militia members, and gambling addicts) he meets along the way.
NONFICTION BY JOSEPH L. FLATLEY
Cheerleader for Evolution: Timothy Leary and the Interstellar-Neurogenetic Key to the Tarot (Inner Traditions, 2025)
New Age Grifter: The True Story of Gabriel of Urantia and his Cosmic Family (Feral House, 2021)
Satan Goes to the Mind Control Convention: A Decade of Travels in a Paranoid Country (Barbary Shore, 2018)
The Final Incident: Essays, Interviews, and Voyeuristic Journalism from the Pages of Deek Magazine (Joseph L. Flatley, editor) (Barbary Shore, 2011)
NOVELS BY JOSEPH L. FLATLEY
Sirhan; or, the Hallucinatory Vanguard (Barbary Shore, 2018)
In Our Place of Quarantine (Barbary Shore, 2008)