In 2008 I'd just finished a wildly successful photo book called Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes and was feeling mounting pressure to follow it up, fastly, with something equally as exciting. I'd recently met science fiction novelist Michael Swanwick at a party and had thought a book of photographs of writers in their writing ( Read more... )

Wow. It's that time of year again. That one glorious moment when the fountain pen show rolls through Philadelphia and I get to geek out. This time I convinced some other dorks from the West Philadelphia Runners that we ought to RUN to the pen show, because, hey, it's miles and miles away and it was like 25 degrees out. So Flint Weller and I zoomed ( Read more... )

so on friday i became consumed with the idea that the reason that my latest videomaker article is like three weeks overdue is because i don't have a Delta Dolcevita to write it with, so I went down town to look at them at Holts. It really is jaw-droppingly beautiful (the medium sized fountain pen if you want to google it).... Met Trillian after ( Read more... )