Zack discusses his memoir, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, in which he creates imagined dialogues with his father, Lee Rogow, a promising writer and drama critic killed in a 1955 plane crash when Zack was only three. By reading his father’s published and unpublished works, wartime journals, and family papers, Zack uncovers secrets, reconstructs his father’s [...]

In this video, rebooted from 2021, he discusses the history of surrealism as a movement influencing both painting and writing. Paradoxically, the surrealists emphasized the spontaneous productions of the unconscious and of coincidence or synchronicity. Yet, they developed a rather rigid social structure. They enjoyed playing games, and Zack shares some of his poetry expressing [...]

Here he discusses the history of surrealism as a movement influencing both painting and writing. Paradoxically, the surrealists emphasized the spontaneous productions of the unconscious and of coincidence or synchronicity. Yet, they developed a rather rigid social structure. They enjoyed playing games, and Zack shares some of his poetry expressing these games – as well [...]