If you’re in or around New Jersey this weekend, I’m reading at the Ridgewood Library. What’s really exciting is that my name is misspelled in this headline. This is not at all unusual, I just sent an email asking for a correction elsewhere. How it goes. The lack of symmetry! Why don’t I have two…
Read more
I was reading an essay about teaching creative non-fiction in Creative Non-Fiction Magazine a couple of months ago (I know, I know, we gaze so studiously at our own navels, writers), and came across a reference to Jo Ann Beard’s “The Fourth State of Matter.” The reference was matter of fact, sort of assuming that if…
Read more
My friend Renee Olander has a gorgeous book that’s just come out, and she mailed me these beautiful cards with the cover on one side and a poem, “Scared of Devils” on the other side. When I was a kid, I was very conscious of my parents’ mortality. Perhaps more than normal. I’d check if…
Read more
