Local writer helps commemorate Iraqi casualties of war through art

Sep. 7, 2011
The events of September 11, 2001 unleashed a myriad of sentiments for artists.

A suburban writer chronicles his search for the wild in new memoir

Jun. 15, 2011
This Sunday is Father’s Day, which brings to mind one of Eight Forty-Eight’s favorite fathers, Tom Montgomery Fate. Fate is a writer and regular contributor to the show. He turns time spent in the woods – and the suburbs – into reflections on life, parenthood, birth and death.

Writer Tom Montgomery Fate reflects on cabin fever

Apr. 12, 2011
As summer approaches, folks are dusting off their flip flops, heading out of hibernation and even acting a tad friendlier toward one another on the streets. But some, like writer Tom Montgomery Fate, long for a bit more solitude with nature.