Fayettenam [now to be called Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness] focuses intermittently on the 1982 disappearance of my stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a Vietnam veteran. Earlier this month, nearly forty years on, we attended a memorial service for my stepfather. My brother Kevin worked hard for several years, finally reaching the Read more…
A fact or a theory that takes its meanings from a particular discipline interests me in the ways it might be useful outside that discipline. How might a biologist’s ideas about morphology transfer to literary form? Do literary texts have feedback loops, like thermostats or software? From architecture, Christopher Alexander Read more…
In February 2023 my hybrid memoir, “Fayettenam: Meditations on Missingness,” will be published by the University of New Mexico Press. In this blog, I plan to write through, around, under, and over the book I have written. What will appear between covers, after all, is a coalescence: years of writing, Read more…