About Lou Marzeles

Lou Marzeles has spent most of his life having trouble deciding what he wants to be when he grows up, should he choose to do so. So far he has narrowed it down to author, journalist, musician, songwriter, playwright, humorist, and philosopher. You can’t rush these things. (The picture of him here is from 1857; he has 17 fewer strands of hair today.)
He is the author of Love in the Age of AI, Prodigal Angel, Life for the Reality Impaired, The Promise of Purpose, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Education. This means his books have covered artificial intelligence, angels, reality, purpose, and education—roughly everything except carburetor repair. Give him time. You can check out detail and reviews on his most recent books on the Books & stuff page of this site.
Before turning his attention to such modest subjects, Lou worked in education policy and spent years exploring the peculiar things human beings do when they organize themselves into institutions. He has also spent much of his career in journalism, including music editor at The Washington Times in D.C., and currently serves as editor and publisher of a newspaper in rural Washington State, where reality routinely provides material stranger than anything he could make up.
Music has been the other constant in his life. Lou is an award-winning songwriter and performer, a film composer, and a licensed psychoacoustician, which sounds considerably more dangerous than it is. He has won multiple regional music competitions and has written everything from folk songs to his rightly ignored Sinfonia for Flugelhorn and Pistachios.
He has also written for the stage. His plays Alice Goes to Therapy and Going Up were produced in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Hood River, Oregon, respectively. For years he wrote a humor column for a national magazine (the late Converge). They paid him to be funny, a role he accepted because, damn it, someone has to do it.
Underlying all of this is a lifelong fascination with a few small questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? What is consciousness? Is Reality real? Is it open on weekends? Can you take the 104 to get there? How many guitars is enough? (Answer: just one more.)
Lou lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he continues to write books, publish a newspaper, compose and perform music, contemplate the nature of existence, and develop his Mahjong skills.