December 27, 2018
Gentrification, the American Lie: An Interview with Stacie Williams
I met Stacie Williams a few years ago in a writing workshop I taught in Cleveland. She submitted a short story that was set in a gentrifying neighborhood, and I […]
March 16, 2016
More Light, More Light
For a while, I’ve been meaning to review Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me. It is a book for our times, and, better, a masterful writerly performance. But I […]
July 31, 2013
Life is Like a Comic Book
I was raised on comic books. I never read them, but I did flip through them, since my dad gave me one of those long white boxes full of them. […]