The origin of the term "ink zero" was the result of a brainstorming session we had towards the end of my September 2014 visit: to create calligraphic (shodo) brush-stroke paintings in the Japanese style, using sumi-e ink on drawing paper. These works likewise appear here. It's our hope that the joy and creative friendship we've experienced in weaving our hearts and minds together with poetry and visual art communicate both the spontaneity and the successive series of excessively late nights which have hatched this project. Without the energy and flow-the mysterious threading and wending of...

This is a novel of ideas, particularly ideas about psychology and philosophy. It's also a novel about the politics and circumstances of a particularly unsettling year - 1939 - and about travel at that time. The main character is an imagined young B.F. Skinner, who became the most influential psychologist of the twentieth century. In the novel, he made a fictional trip to Europe and back in May and June of that year.

Skinner had two quests, one intellectual, one political. Both quests involved Ludwig Wittgenstein, the century's most influential philosopher. Skinner's intellectual...