March 8, 2016
Why the Klan Branded a White Pastor
In July 1924, Oren Van Loon, a white minister in Michigan, posed for a news photographer, who focused his lens on the letters “KKK” branded into Van Loon’s back. Intrarracial […]
November 19, 2015
Moby-Dick Out Loud on the Way to the Paris Climate Conference
By Karen Malpede I’ve been reading Moby-Dick out loud at night, slowly, with my partner. We were on chapter ninety-three–in which the castaway Pip loses sanity after being left adrift alone […]
April 21, 2013
Goodreads Review of Reality’s New Thriller, THE PRESSURE COOKERS
One way to understand the fundamental difference between nonfiction and fiction is to consider how what works in one doesn’t work in the other. There are elements of structure, pacing, […]