My latest Substack post provides a context for my ongoing experiments with life writing across a range of media, from print to the web and beyond. I include a downloadable excerpt from Video-Graphic Alchemy: Transforming “Dear Diary,” a book I published in 2012 that includes a multimedia retrospective. I’ve independently published several books since then that elaborate on themes my early work explored. My experiments continue. From the back cover: “Video-Graphic Alchemy: T

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