Itzamná, The Maya God of the Sky and of Writing...

Novels, interactive media and current interests.

Recent:

Stone Mirror

Xibalba Gate

The White Pig (Click to read Chapter 1)

Other novels, non-fiction and poetry. Some books available include Little America, The Time Trip, Portal, and The Book of Revelations. Nel Mezzo della Vita Press and other projects.

Interactive & the ELO: Published hypertexts, and descriptions of computer games and game scripts I wrote in the 1980s. Link to the Electronic Literature Organization, founded in 1999 to facilitate and promote the writing, publishing and reading of literature in electronic media. I was a founding member of the Board of Directors.

Film: A short film from Burning Man in 2000 and an hour-long ethnographic film I made in 1975 with photographer Steve Marley called Inishmaan, Beyond the Pale.

Archaeology: A few photographs.

Apartment: Paris one-bedroom available for short term rentals. Click for info and pictures and contact me if interested.

Other links: three essays and two short stories online at the Electronic Book Review.

Recommendations:
On the Trail of the Maya Explorer: Tracing the Epic Journey of John Lloyd Stephens by Steve Glassman. A fascinating blend of personal travel narrative, literary analysis and current events.

The Goddess and the Bull - Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization by Michael Balter. Well-crafted account of the current research on this Neolithic site in Central Anatolia.

Here's a link to an interesting site with great photographs of Mesoamerican archaeology: James Q. Jacobs.