Hi, I'm Jim Stovall -- writer, editor, reader, watercolorist, drawer, caricature maker, (I'm carefully avoiding the word "artist" here), woodworker, gardener, and journalism prof now happily retired.

I've written several books, the latest of which is Heads and Tales: Caricatures and Stories of the Famous, the Infamous, and the Just Plain Interesting.

That book contains a lot of my caricatures and short pieces about writers and writing and serves as the basis for this podcast. I hope that you'll consider taking a look sometime.