This new web­site is kick­ing my Ass –emblage capa­bil­i­ties. The 600×200 graph­ics aren’t load­ing cor­rectly [this is where we serve the wine] and the thumb­nails refuse to sub­mit to their 120×120 require­ments [bring in the small plat­ter of brie] … to sub­mit my tax­ied brain to fur­ther degra­da­tion, the tem­plate is fubarred by my constant […]

While in grad­u­ate school, I often read cre­ative non-​fiction to bet­ter fix­ate the details of an his­toric event within the con­text of its phys­i­cal and timely occur­rence. My field of study, 19^th cen­tury Amer­i­can his­tory, pro­vided me with inspi­ra­tion for many of my assem­blages. This week I work on “regions of opti­cal power”. These boxes range in size […]

This is an excerpt from a review on Mar­lin Fitzwater’s book “Esther’s Pil­low”. I inter­viewed Mr. Fitzwa­ter for the review. The review is on Pop​mat​ters​.com web­site. When I asked him about the integrity of the press, and how his expe­ri­ences as a press sec­re­tary influ­enced his char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of the news­pa­per reporter in the novel, he replied, “My char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of […]

from the same review: If you know Fitzwa­ter, it should come as no sur­prise that one of the main char­ac­ters in the novel is not a per­son at all, but an entity – The Press. I emailed Fitzwa­ter to ask him about the sig­nif­i­cance of the Kansas City Star in Esther’s Pil­low. He told me: “The Kansas City Star […]

from a review I wrote Sto­ries, like drag­ons, are hard to kill. For­mer White House press sec­re­tary Mar­lin Fitzwa­ter rows across the river of his­tor­i­cal fic­tion with both oars in the water. As the quin­tes­sen­tial media-​man, Fitzwa­ter can sure write the story. This time, though, he’s not putting the spin on a Rea­gan pol­icy deci­sion or fac­ing the press […]