A Reading of Committed: A Memoir of the Artist’s Road

I set up a personal video camera to record my first post-publication reading of Committed: A Memoir of the Artist's Road, one I did at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. When I got home I realized I had forgotten to clear room on the memory card; it only recorded the first half. I've joked before …

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Traveling the Artist’s Road: A Photo Collection

Who writes a travel memoir and doesn't include photos? Well, Committed: A Memoir of the Artist's Road is consistent with other literary memoirs in that the burden is on the author to place you in the scene solely via prose. But we all love pictures, right? That's why I was thrilled to be invited to participate …

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An Author Reveals His Secret in The New York Times

While it's not a subject I've written about much on this blog, a key narrative theme in my book Committed: A Memoir of the Artist's Road is my coming to terms with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The publication of the book essentially "outed" me, in a manner in which I had the most control; my own …

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