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Rübezahl is a tale predicated on the concept of psychometry—the notion that a person might be born with the telepathic ability to know an object’s history just by touching it.             The problem is that I disbelieve in psychometry. And more to the point, I readily grasp the fact that the premise is somewhat hackneyed. So, why was it necessary to write a tale centering on that particular concept? The answer is that psychometry serves as a rather extraordinary metaphor f

If someone were to ask me about my politics, it would be very difficult to answer or to explain. Perhaps there would be nothing to say other than to call myself a really bland centrist. And even if that’s true, it’s not completely true. This is due to the fact that while I might in fact be a bland centrist, I simultaneously identify  as a philosopher. And a fairly lazy one at that. Honest. If the Tomb of the Unknown Moderate existed, I would want to make a pilgrimage—but I’d

Rübezahl follows from an idea book that I kept while living in my family’s vacation home at Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, fall 1995-spring 1996. For those who don’t know anything about the institution, it is a resort and adult-education center approximately 2000 acres in size. The grounds consist of residences (mainly gingerbread cottages,) opulent hotels, concert halls, lecture venues such as the Hall of Philosophy, lush gardens, parks, various houses of worshi

Much of The Nameless Land  takes place in Egypt and Sinai, but only a small section of my journals and idea books actually inspired the...

From the very beginning, The Nameless Land  was always destined to be a visionary parable centering around the problem of sin and deceit....

The Nameless Land  exists so as to attempt to answer one simple question: can love and marriage exist in a world filled with so much...

Anastasia’s Midnight Song addresses the most complicated factors regarding a person’s coming of age—factors that sometimes blend together...

Like anything else that anyone ever wrote, Anastasia’s Midnight Song solves an inner wound—specifically, a lingering sense of guilt that...

Anastasia’s Midnight Song follows from an idea book that I kept during my senior year of high school, fall of 1986-spring 1987. And it’s...

On the Threshold follows from an idea book written while working on an M.F.A degree in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville,...

The madman pointed at her winding watch and then tapped the dial. “Do you remember the night of the big fire in Leicester Square? I’ll...

Some who read my latest work, On the Threshold, may possibly wonder just what in the world would be the origins of the burning-man figure...

So much of the inspiration for my work, On the Threshold, comes from the notorious Amityville murders of 1974. Chances are that many...

We all know that everything began with the word. According to Judeo-Christian tradition, nothing even existed before Jehovah spoke. “Let...

The Phantom Glare of Day is a trans-genre work that seeks to truly help people to grasp and to face very real and very difficult aspects...

The creation of a character hinges on a short list of things. First, the character must embody at least some of the author’s intellectual...

The Phantom Glare of Day follows from a youthful diary that I wrote while traveling through England in the summer of 1985. It’s hard to...

For some, this kind of question may be difficult to answer. For me, the question is exceedingly easy. And my answer is quite simple: the...

Many ideas come from our conscious observations of the phenomenological world, obviously. Still, we must remember that in the selfsame...

Readers, you should understand several key points regarding a visionary work like The Phantom Glare of Day. First: These novellas are...