photography | photography
Oct.22.2008
One of the temptations I fight against when I photograph literary sites is to try to get everything into one shot. So I will stand across the street and try to get the house and surrounding trees, like this photograph of The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts.
Both the Alcott family (think Louisa...
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Oct.15.2008
My family's pretty talented, if I do say so myself.
My parents were not very artistic. . . or even "into" the arts, so I'm not sure where our various passions came from, but they certainly do exist. I wanted to write from the time I was a kid, as did my younger brother Rob. Rob's a...
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Oct.14.2008
The first thing that strikes about Antarctica: The colour white really has very little to do with the overall effect of the place.
This has long occupied my mind, that is, how people assume it's a world of white, white out, white ice, white snow.
Antarctica's ice has a base color one might call...
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Oct.08.2008
War and cameras have often reflected each other.
When I saw the first few photos in Gerda Taro's exhibit earlier this year at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan -- and viewing them again in the book Gerda Taro, recently published by ICP -- I was especially taken by one that is...
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Oct.08.2008
Check out our newest article in Be Noticed magazine. This article profiles the art of Joe Brklacich, a brilliant artist who focuses on "post-modern, deconstructive abstracts of the unique compositional human form."
Be Noticed Magazine is an Arizona-based publication that uncovers the work...
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Sep.29.2008
The Old Manse
For example, in researching A Journey into the Transcendentalists’ New England, I read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s book, Nature. He wrote it while living at the Old Manse, and the book serves as one of the foundations of Transcendentalism. Here is a key passage from the beginning of...
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Sep.25.2008
Now here's something a writer doesn't get to do every day. When the Publisher & CEO, the VP & the sales director came to Seattle for meetings with Amazon.com, they paid me a visit, too. I was going to meet them in the city for lunch, but we came up with a better option–a nice catered lunch...
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Sep.21.2008
Helsinki-Two days ago I got rejected by the Russians.
It felt like an incredibly personal thing, to be denied entry to their country. My visa application had been sent to the consulate in Turkuu, Finland, a tiny place where I'd thought they wouldn't pay too close attention, but it hadn't mattered...
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Sep.11.2008
The exhibit of photographs from A Journey into Ireland’s Literary Revival is now up at the Borgia Gallery at Elms College. It is on the second floor of the Doolin Campus Center. Just turn right after you get out of the elevator. The opening on Sunday was a pretty successful event, I think,...
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Sep.10.2008
Here it is, the UK version of Roadwork: Rock And Roll Turned Inside Out's new cover.
New title: Raising Hell On The Rock 'N' Roll Highway.
Subtle, right?
Omnibus, the book's UK publisher, is sure that the flaming-hottie version will move way more copies than the fine-art cover and wordplay-title...
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