I’m a writer of fiction and nonfiction. I live in Northern California.
My most recent book is A Sense of the World: How a  Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler, now available in several editions and translations. My next book, another work of narrative nonfiction, is due for completion this year. I’ll soon be posting a special preview in these pages. Another book, a novel, is also underway, but I know better than to put a timeline on that one.

Your proprietor, between deadlines (and haircuts, obviously).

For a brief bio in the obligatory third person, please see the appropriately-titled Brief Bio. (I’ve always found these sorts of things to be a tad pretentious–after all, you’re pretending you’re not you, but someone else writing about you. Still, sometimes people need to introduce or interview you, or just explain who the hell you are.)

Teaching catalogs lectures, classes, seminars and other educational pursuits. For more in-depth information about upcoming gigs, please see Events.

Media is a running compilation of articles, interviews, profiles and such. This doesn’t, however, include reviews of my books. I excerpt those in Books.

If you’re interested in my time as a technologist, you might enjoy reading Techno Days: Riding the Electric Zeitgeist.