I somehow managed to miss Don DeLillo until now. His tenth book, Mao II, published in 1991, back when the world was a different place. A reclusive writer holed up in a hidden lair, the art world, terrorism and a …
Creative: What Did I Learn?
What did I learn, realize or find during this year of 2022? A tough year for many, once again, as the shadow of COVID expands and contracts in direct correlation to human behavior. I learned that the United States inches …
Creative: Albania re framed, Sam Keam
Flying to foreign country to make photographs and design a magazine–in real-time no less–isn’t the easiest thing in the world, and yet every year I see people go and do this very thing. Sam Keam did it. I have proof. …
Adventure: Who is Primitive?
What is real? What is not? “Primitive peoples,” carving stories on stone. So close to the fringes of the city. Strip malls, track homes-poorly constructed-ubiquitous lines like scars on the Earth. Named after what was destroyed to make room for …
Read: The Shining Path
Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Guzmán? Yep, you read that correctly. Wondering about that last name on the list? Well, he and his cohorts managed to kill 70,000 Peruvians so it’s a name, and lesson, for all of us.(The government …
Read: In Extremis
If I had to categorize war journalists, at least in my experience with them, it would be flawed in all the right ways. Flawed in the ways that allow for someone to do this kind of work year after year, …
Read: The Shepherds’s Hut
Tim Winton is one of Australia’s most highly-regard authors and rightly so. I’ve enjoyed every single book I’ve encountered, including The Shepherd’s Hut. Aussies have a unique take on the English language, so when I get to read a Winton …
Creative: Hot and Cold
Someone asked me about buying a Leica. “Should I get the monochrome or the color version?” “Get the color,” I said. “If you need or want it you are covered especially with assignment work.” If you asked me what kind …
Read: The Coyote’s Bicycle
For those of you who have written or reached out describing how you have a hard time coming up with story ideas, well, read this book. This is a story people, and I mean a story of stories that splinters …