The Art of Poetry No. 102 (Interviewer) Issue no. 219 Winter 2016 “I think of America as my audience, and inside that space are white people as well as people of color.”
The Genius of Terry Southern March 18th, 2019 Given that we’re living in a Terry Southern novel, perhaps there’s no better time than now to revisit his trenchant, sidesplitting work.
Is Literature Dead? August 27th, 2018 One evening not long ago, my fifteen-year-old son, Noah, told me that literature was dead. We were at the dinner table, discussing The Great Gatsby, which he was reading for a ninth-grade humanities class. Part of the class structure involved anno…
My First Book(s) December 6th, 2013 There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. —Red Smith I I wrote my first first book over the course of three months, from July 23 to October 23, 1979. Four weeks in, I turned eighteen. This was a novel…