July 30, 2019
A Hunger and a Need: An Interview with Neil Aitken and Dao Strom, Founders of De-Canon
This post is the fourth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
May 16, 2016
In Praise of Older Siblings, Part I: Fact-Checking My Life
I remember it like this: I’m a child, daydreaming in my mother’s minivan as we drive along a winding, mountainous highway in Pennsylvania. One brother is beside me, and the […]
March 22, 2016
Every Night Is Ladies Night: An Interview with Sonja Livingston
On a recent flight from Boston back to Buffalo, my seatmate claimed both armrests, and never once looked up nor adjusted his position when I pressed past him to my […]
July 31, 2014
Meditation on Leslie Jamison’s THE EMPATHY EXAMS (Part Two of Six)
[Continued from Part One] Earlier, I almost took off on a tangent, using a fairy-tale metaphor to describe Jamison’s initial reaction to West Virginia. I loosed my mind on some […]
July 31, 2014
Meditation on Leslie Jamison’s THE EMPATHY EXAMS (Part One of Six)
In “Fog Count,” an essay in The Empathy Exams that spun out of her trip to visit a friend incarcerated in West Virginia, Leslie Jamison describes how she falls, weak-kneed, […]