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media debate • books • movies

For me, the Twitter frenzy over a negative book review—a book review, for crying out loud—is a cause for rejoicing."

why I write • faith • visual art

advice • teaching • interviews

As certain as the rain, disappointments will come, and you will have to live with them and embrace them.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

For the first forty years of my life, I was quite happy as an adopted child who knew nothing about his origins.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

Only a smattering of folks across the country understand the language, and I’m sorry to say that doesn’t include many academics.

from adoption to writerly sins...

Since I’d never cooked much, I didn’t want to start, but I knew I had to do this for my mother.