Books: Cultural history
Red Sovine and the Sound of American Sentiment
Country music, truck-driving songs, and the machinery of feeling.
Research · primary-source verification
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Books, screens & other evidence.
20 projects across nonfiction, criticism, original fiction, TV development, and podcasting. Filter by the shelf that brought you here.
Books: Film history
Brautigan in Hollywood
Richard Brautigan and the movies that never got made.
Drafting · advanced archival research
Books: Film history
Unmaking Elric
A history of the many films that almost brought Michael Moorcock’s hero to the screen.
Proposal · 12-chapter outline drafted
Books: Cultural biography
A Different Kind of Hero
Elliott Gould and the volatile promise of New Hollywood.
Revision · final verification
Books: Investigative nonfiction
American Flag Blues
An investigative book, fully drafted and sourced.
Drafting · 37 chapters drafted
Books: Children’s picture book
The Dog Who Told Time
A children’s picture book, text complete and illustration underway.
Production · illustration underway
Books: Nonfiction · Leadership
Management Philosophy Book
An untitled book on management, drawn from a past career in UX leadership.
Drafting
Screen & TV: Novel + feature + 8-part limited series
Cathedral of Circles
Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and one research base unfolding across three forms.
Revision · ~130-page screenplay
Screen & TV: Limited series adaptation
A Confederacy of Dunces
An eight-episode adaptation built from a comparative dossier of five archival drafts.
Revision · continuity pass
Screen & TV: Scripted drama series
The License to Fail
The history behind James Bond, from a 587-item sourced anecdote archive.
Revision · season one, second draft
Screen & TV: Feature screenplay
Downriver
A feature screenplay in active development.
In development
Screen & TV: Feature screenplay
The Bethel Springs Special
A feature screenplay with a complete draft.
Revision · full draft complete
Screen & TV: Feature · Tarantino parody
One Generation Down
A feature-length Tarantino parody, in final polish for competitions.
Revision · final polish
Screen & TV: Feature · Kurosawa-style Iron Chef origin
The Heat Will Be On
A straight dramatic, Kurosawa-style reimagining of Iron Chef’s origin.
Complete · submission ready
Criticism: Essay collection
Wrong Picture
Essays on films that criticism—and sometimes audiences—got wrong.
Complete · manuscript
Criticism: Companion volume
Second Screening
Paired Projection Booth essays.
Publication path undecided
Criticism: Edited anthology
Ferreri: The Body, the Feast, and the World
A scholarly collection on the unruly cinema of Marco Ferreri.
Proposal · contributors recruiting
Fiction: Original fiction · Novel
Channel Impossible
A nested psychological novel about screens, stories, and a man named Terry.
Drafting · novel
Fiction: Dystopian novel
Project 2055
A rework of Jack Williamson’s The Humanoids, with a nationalist-populist human movement in place of the robots.
Planned · about 90,000 words
Podcasts: Podcast network
Weirding Way Media
12 shows and archives led by the 1,500+ episode Projection Booth.
Always on
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