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media debate • books • movies

I ache a little bit when a new game doesn’t show narrative ambition.

why I write • faith • visual art

Christopher Hitchens: 'It would be useful to keep a diary, but I don’t like writing unpaid. I don’t like writing checks without getting paid.'

advice • teaching • interviews

I love to write about topics that other people would prefer to forget about—or whitewash.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

Swann’s Way was simply impassable. Even Proust said so.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

Talk to the cloud; the rest will follow.

from adoption to writerly sins...

Anger is the sensation of 'peppercorns in a mortar and pestle, grinding around in a circle until they finally yield and crack.'