Haughty by nature, Steve Fagin challenges the conventions of media making, particularly the essayistic and documentary forms. His sweeping videoworks rivet literary and cultural explorations to whimsical and high-flung formal innovation. Talkin' with Your Mouth Full (Duke University Press, 1998) includes not only scripts of Fagin's works but critical responses to-and meditations on-his influential videos by a distinguished, if intriguingly disparate, group of artists and scholars, including Trinh T. Minh-ha, Peter Wollen, Vivian Sobchak, Barry Gifford, Margaret Morse, and others.