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media debate • books • movies

I sometimes forget that the most effective creative writing has nothing to do with schooling or publishing.

why I write • faith • visual art

Throughout Kinshasa, people told me, ‘No camera,’ but at the hospital, individual people seemed to have lost their integrity of self.

advice • teaching • interviews

When I hand back papers, I feel like a juror returning a guilty verdict.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

I’d pull back the curtains and stare at the headstones in jagged rows beside a vacant hot dog factory.

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I know why a girl might wish to become a tree—to subject herself as if at random to any passing storm.

from adoption to writerly sins...

The whole online world drives me nuts. I hate the pressure of feeling like I need to go on Facebook and be witty."