Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art
In 2005, I accompanied a team of paranormal investigators as they looked for ghosts at The Antietam National Battlefield. The resulting article appeared in The Frederick News-Post. Seeing as it’s the week …
Civil War Ghosthunters Read More
I rebelled by being conventional, by NOT going to art school. The product of three generations of visual artists, I studied Political Science, then moved from California to Washington, D.C. for …
Why Visual Art Keeps Invading My Fiction Read More
Earlier this month, The Strand Magazine editor Andrew Gulli made headlines around the world after announcing he’d found a portion of a previously unpublished F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. This latest find is …
Andrew Gulli on Hunting Down Lost Works from Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, and Other Masters Read More
I met Clarke Bedford as he readied his steampunk art car, Vanadu, for the Takoma Park Fourth of July Parade. Bedford invited me to his home in Hyattsville, MD which, …
Clarke Bedford on Art Cars, Humor in Visual Art, and Comfort in Nonconformity Read More
Thyrza Segal became internet-famous for painting monsters into artwork she found at thrift stores. She’s also built costumes for television, created polymer clay aliens, and painted nudes into scenes of …
Thyrza Segal on Adding Monsters to Landscapes, Creating Creatures, and Other Twisted Works Read More
Over the past several years, Rania Peet was the creative mind behind the large-scale sculptures on display at Silver Spring, Maryland’s The Haunted Garden. Nosy neighbors and legal rigmarole shut …
Haunted Garden Artist Rania Peet Read More
Twenty six years ago, Ken Kesey gathered thirteen students, most officially enrolled in the University of Oregon writing program, others not, to write a collaborative novel in one academic year. …
What I’ve Learned From Ken Kesey and His Students Read More
During the academic year of 1987-1988, Ken Kesey taught a graduate-level creative writing class of thirteen students at the University of Oregon. He charged the group with producing a full-length …
Robert Blucher is O.U. Levon: Kesey Co-author Remembers the Value of Collaboration Read More
Stunning wire sculptures are popping up in unexpected places on and over the streets of Baltimore. They are the work of an artist who goes by Reed Bmore, and he …
Wire Sculptures from Street Artist Reed Bmore Read More
During the academic year of 1987-1988, Ken Kesey taught a graduate-level creative writing class of thirteen students at the University of Oregon. He charged the group with producing a full-length …
Lidia Yuknavitch is O.U. Levon: Remembering the Caverns Crew and Ken Kesey’s Kindness Read More