A Writer’s Residency: What is the Why?
Sean MurphyI was happy to come across this excellent essay, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying...
Poem: Where the Hell is Shafi Hadi? (Revisited)
(*Saxophone player Shafi Hadi, born Curtis Porter, is best-known for his association with jazz legend...
The Problem with the Homeless Problem
There is a man who sits near the pumps at the gas station I drive...
He’s Martin Amis…and We’re Not
Reading Martin Amis’s non-fiction is like riding in a plane. As you cruise over miniaturized...
Poem: Kurt Vonnegut’s Cigarettes (from Blotterature)
I’m honored to have this poem (written in solidarity to one of my literary heroes),...
50 BULLET POINTS CONCERNING AMERICA’S GUN PSYCHOSIS
Note: It makes me physically ill that this piece, written in 2016, is still not...
Appreciating Ursula K. Le Guin and Cultivating the Right Kind of Rebellion
Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you find the right books at the right time; more rarely...
Sorry, Charlie (on the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Three Years Later)
i. OF COURSE RELIGION IS the problem. For anyone who, understandably, would say it’s a...
Just Say (N)Oprah or, Make Great American Again
All this breathless, borderline hysterical enthusiasm about Oprah running for president is, sadly, doing a...
David Bowie: The Man Who Owned the World (Two Years Later)
ONLY THE BEATLES. That’s the sole comparison that comes to mind when compelled to name...