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media debate • books • movies

Even Meryl Streep, as Chief Elder, has little to do but grimace.

why I write • faith • visual art

I steered clear of anything creative, preferring the safety of science over nuance. I lived my life with one finger on my own pulse.

advice • teaching • interviews

Graphics fade fast, but good writing never stops shining."

fiction • memoir • writer's life

Dinner gets done. Books get abandoned, bungled, finished, finally published, and ultimately forgotten.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

Everything grows in its own way, which can’t be justified or condemned. I danced while I could, then I couldn’t...

from adoption to writerly sins...

I have unwittingly raised a daughter too much like me: restless, willful, and walled against the fragility of life.