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media debate • books • movies

Carolyn Heilbrun once observed that James Joyce was 'a world class shit.'

why I write • faith • visual art

I’d never seen that part of the body before. It looks so much like drawing.

advice • teaching • interviews

When my youngest son died by his own hand, my life shattered, and my faith crumbled.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

Leslie Fiedler took the blinders off me and said, 'Look, the myths we live by, our secret longings—the great books lay them bare.'

featured poets • poetry spotlights

Only a smattering of folks across the country understand the language, and I’m sorry to say that doesn’t include many academics.

from adoption to writerly sins...

The fifteen-year-old American boy is an unrepentant omnivore.