Articles, scholarship, textbooks, & other nonfiction

"Putting the Pig Back Together Again: Dis(re)connection in 'Figurski at Findhorn on Acid'"

"The pigs become a metaphor for the novel—like the hypertext, they both have exactly 147 parts, parts which the characters disassemble and then must try to reassemble in the end when they finally come together 'all on the same page.' Likewise, the experience of reading the novel involves a constant (re)assembling of its disparate elements into scenes, as the reader traverses hypertext links and chooses navigational paths. . . "
Holly Slocum, Electronic Literature Lab, and Tyler Brumfield
Mechanical Pig

"Someone, Somewhere, with Something: The Origins of Figurski"

In 1995, I wrote a 500-word flash fiction about Theodore Streleski, a real-life, perennial Stanford graduate student who notoriously bludgeoned to death his faculty advisor with a hammer in the 1970s. "Streleski at Findhorn on Acid," which imagined Streleski visiting the New Age intentional community of Findhorn, Scotland, while high on LSD, won First Prize in Grain Magazine's 1995 "Short Grain Postcard Story" contest.

Other published articles include:


TitleGenrePublicationDate
Electronic Mail and Small-Group FeedbackTextbook ChapterTeaching Writing: Theories and Practices. New York: HarperCollins1994-03-10
Baja for BeginnersTravelStanford Magazine1993-09-15
The Captain's TableTravelStanford Magazine1992-12-10
Books That Made a Difference: "Tristram Shandy"Book ReviewStanford Magazine1992-06-12
Congressional Hearings Spotlight Federal Support for Educational R&DArticleEducational Researcher, January-February 1990, American Educational Research Association1990-01-30
The Annotated Book Jacket Blurbs for "Seduction by Light"Book Review(Review of Al Young) Palo Alto Weekly1989-05-10
A New Voice EmergesBook Review(Review of Ehud Havazelet) Palo Alto Weekly1988-06-08
The Once and Future Queen: Feminism in King Arthur's CourtBook Review(Review of Persia Woolley) Palo Alto Weekly1987-09-09
Small BusinessBook Review(Review of Tom Parker) Palo Alto Weekly1987-05-13
Vector: A Thriller in ParadiseBook Review(Review of Rob Swigart) Palo Alto Weekly1987-03-11
AmadeusTheater ReviewPalo Alto Weekly1987-01-14
Family Life in the 80s from a Gay PerspectiveBook Review(Review of David Leavitt) Palo Alto Weekly1986-11-12
Stanford Waits for Godot: Celebrating Samuel Beckett at 80ArticleCover feature, Palo Alto Weekly1986-05-21
An Unauthorized Peek Behind the Iron CurtainTravelPalo Alto Weekly1985-11-06