We (eight Americans and seven Moroccans, along with a French documentarian and a Japanese funder) pulled off a performance of Locust: The Opera in Agadir, Morocco, at the 13t...

Here is an intriguing email and my response (both somewhat abridged, so let me know if you’d like the full versions).  I showed the controversial image in question (Grasshopper in Cyberspace, Galina Lukshina, 2003) during a university presentation about my writing, whe...

             Few people grasp the complexities of science and still fewer engage the richness of opera—so why not combine the two?!  This seems absurd, but the venture is also ridiculously intriguing.  I team...

         According to Thomas Edison, “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”  And in my experience writing is about 10% drafting and 90% revising.  What I didn’t fully appreciate was how much redoing and undoing goes into art—or at least...