Marionette and Stop-Motion Projects
Literary (including illustrated)
The Canon of Roland
a short story
To the author of a reading list, the books on it are merely titles, but this fellow claims to have read them and experienced them,
left to right, word after word.
a short story
To the author of a reading list, the books on it are merely titles, but this fellow claims to have read them and experienced them,
left to right, word after word.
The Sophomore Jinx
a short story
Dante Alighieri's biographer heard about letters written in the 13th century implicating the poet of The Divine Comedy in a jawdropping scheme to kill Pope John XXII with black arts. Leonardo Bruni never actually saw the documents, which by his time were dust.
a short story
Dante Alighieri's biographer heard about letters written in the 13th century implicating the poet of The Divine Comedy in a jawdropping scheme to kill Pope John XXII with black arts. Leonardo Bruni never actually saw the documents, which by his time were dust.
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The Mystery of Bitter Root Manor
The epic story of Vern Archer and his heirs, fully illustrated in majestic iambic pentameter verse across four volumes.
The epic story of Vern Archer and his heirs, fully illustrated in majestic iambic pentameter verse across four volumes.
The real-life Bell Labs scientist upon whom the character of Dr. Research was based in such early 60s educational films as Hemo the Magnificent and Gateways to the Mind leads his unconventional family on password-controlled and sexually obsessed adventures in pop culture.
Don't even think about it: all you need is sense, in the present tense!
—the Archer family motto
Elmore James has nothing on this one!
—George Harrison
Dr. Research, played by Frank C. Baxter
(1958, Bell Laboratories/Warner Brothers)
As a narrator, Dexter is peculiar and memorable, calling to mind Ignatius T. Reilly in John Kennedy O'Toole's equally picaresque Confederacy of Dunces. (1980)
—Kirkus Review
Zimmerman's hero is not afraid and pulls no punches. This is topical in an age where literary worth itself is under seige and subject to political trends and freakish ideaology.
—James Rosenthal
"20 years since I wrote Story Grammar, trying to work out my complicity in the murder of education in Philadelphia, the context of the document has changed drastically, repositioning the fanaticism of Mr. Matherson: does anyone still believe America should be a people joined by a common language and literature? We have AI! Does anyone still believe teaching citizens to read is worth the effort? The benefit of not teaching them is demonstrable, but inequitably distributed.
"Meanwhile, the bedrock beneath the system never moves: in the United States, everyone gets what they deserve."
—Drew Zimmerman
Apollodorus, a Dialogue
Apollodorus, the infamous madman of the Platonic Dialogues resents being plopped down in the middle of a neurotic author's artsy, classical fantasy.
Apollodorus, the infamous madman of the Platonic Dialogues resents being plopped down in the middle of a neurotic author's artsy, classical fantasy.
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