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June 9, 2016
Dogwoods still blooming in New Haven. These are some outside my...
Dogwoods still blooming in New Haven. These are some outside my window at my room at Yale, my home while I’m teaching at the Yale Writers’ Conference.
May 18, 2016
It’s not just American kids who are bored with life....
It’s not just American kids who are bored with life. #RussiansinPathosCyprus
April 21, 2016
DB23 | Drunken Boat
What an issue! Women translation, Bulgarian literature & Glass House Shelter plus our own amazing fiction.
April 15, 2016
I’ll be living out of this suitcase, duffel bag, and backpack...
I’ll be living out of this suitcase, duffel bag, and backpack for the next three months: first a road trip up to DC, then to Turkey, then a conference in Cyprus and another presentation in North Cyprus, Then back to the States and a few weeks in New Haven where I’ll be teaching at the Yale Summer Writers’ Conference. Then a trip with my mom to visit my dad’s relatives in Arkansas. Then off to South Africa in the dead of their winter, where we’ll hang out at the family beach house in Pennington and travel to Blyde Rivier Canyon where we’ll have a nice ceremony for my father in law and scatter his ashes. Oh, and plan to get lots of reading and writing done. Pack light and pack a lot of black.
April 2, 2016
Greetings from Clarksville, Tennessee! UTC presenters at the...
Greetings from Clarksville, Tennessee! UTC presenters at the Tennessee Collegiate Honors Council Conference
March 22, 2016
Empathy Doesn't Make You a Good Person
Against empathy: “how could I help other people.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/474588/why-empathy-is-a-bad-thing/
March 19, 2016
Wanderings: On Mary McCarthy’s “A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Internal Émigrés”
My essay out in Electric Literature. One of my favorite Baldwin quotes is in it:
“In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.”
The Rumpus Interview with Jessa Crispin
“American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.”
March 6, 2016
February 28, 2016
Two Thirds North 2016
My essay “The Germans are Coming” is in this gorgeous issue of Two Thirds North out of Stockholm. This essay will be in my collection forthcoming from C&R Press.
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