Steven T Mason, Boy Governor and Founder of the University of Michigan

A PDF of the article

Your average letterpress-printing[1] enthusiast probably shares this earth with more than sixty thousand like-minded souls. For instance, Briar Press, a popular letterpress community on the web, has nearly sixty thousand registered users. In other words, you could populate a reasonably sized small city with letterpress enthusiasts.

Heidelberg Windmill 10X15 Blackball

This issue features a microinterview with S. T. Joshi, conducted by Fritz Swanson. Joshi began his career as an H. P. Lovecraft scholar at the age of seventeen, in 1975. The compilation of criticism, H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism, that Joshi began as a young man led to a comprehensive bibliography of Lovecraft’s work released by Kent State University Press. He now acts as the unofficial curator of Lovecraft’s life and work, editing the definitive editions of Lovecraft’s fiction for Penguin Books, and working to release all of Lovecraft’s extensive correspondence. Joshi is also a scholar of H. L. Mencken and Ambrose Bierce, and has pursued his scholarship independently, without a PhD or the support of any academic institution.

The article is called "A Piece of History", and it starts on page 60 of the Fall 2010 issue of LSA MAGAZINE. (pdf)

Jason Polan and I did this a few years ago, but they are still awesome.

Here are PDFs of my work:
A Sidebar on Great Monsters, which is at the end of this article.

An article about BiblioBouts which is an educational game I developed with a team in the School of Information that teaches academic library research.

And finally

Another article about Neil Greenberg this time focusing on his UMICH bus system AIRBUS.

"He’s working on a project that might be called All The Water Towers in America."

"While most in-class student doodles are toe-dips into the stream of consciousness, Neil Greenberg obsessively draws maps. Though these “eight-and-a-half-by-elevens” come straight from his imagination, they often include street names, transit systems—even elaborately conceived bus schedules. Greenberg now works as a transportation planner in the Detroit area. Fritz Swanson, his former English professor, talks to him about what maps do for him, why he makes them, and the deliberate shortcomings of Fake Omaha, one of Greenberg’s imaginary cities"

"I have never been to the Floating City. In my youth we traveled some. My mother’s career took us quickly, and in a short span of time between when I was five and when I was eight, to four different continents, twenty-seven different countries, and four hundred different hotels."

She was tender. Soft as a sand dune after a windstorm.

Back in the before days, she would wake up and stretch those arms out across the sky, her left hand arched over the Baffin Islands, her right curled up under her jaw, her elbow casting a swaying shadow over the Jack Pine Forests of Saskatchewan. She was a tangle of stretching and yawning, and I would let slip a quiet sigh from where I lay, snuggled down along the south shore of Lake Erie, my head pillowed up on the Adirondacks.