Works In Progress

The Shackled Historian: The Life and Times Of Herbert Feis

This project is a social history/biography about Herbert Feis (1893-1972), an American economist who after his term of service as Economic Advisor and Advisor for Economic Affairs in the US State Department (1931-1943) went on to became a Pulitzer Prize-winning diplomatic historian of the Cold War Era. Academic boilerplate, footnotes, endnotes and bibliography are not included in this version, sorry.
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Tales from the House of Women

This is a transitional work that keeps my mind active when I'm not engaged in major work. I'll finish it some day. The setting is The Great Mother Hair Salon run by The Goddess. Having shape-shifted into the persona of a shop assistant, SHE sits by the cash register in the waiting room and interviews prospective applicants and elicits stories from them about their experiences with the opposite sex.
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Antic Odds and Sods

The following are bits and pieces from material which is still in flux, ie. they haven't found a home or a final form. Some of these come from a play I started working on years ago called "Furniture" which is about a guy who lives in an apartment and his upstairs neighbor is God who's taking time out to try to become a painter, a very New York City kind of arrangement... stuff like that. Also included are pieces from good friends which fit into the general scheme of this site. Enjoy.
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The Lost Episodes

In December 1995 I received an e-mail message from Dr. John Scialli of Phoenix, Arizona, introducing me to Nigey Lennon, the author of Being Frank, her memoir of her time with Frank Zappa. He evidently felt that she and I would have things to discuss. As it turned out, he was more than correct. We went on to discuss many other topics besides Uncle Franz, but that was a natural progression considering who he was and what he thought about. The following are excerpts from this on-going correspondence-in-progress.
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