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media debate • books • movies

On page one, older brother Ira drunkenly insults his mama.

why I write • faith • visual art

With every kiss, the 15-, 21-, 28-year-old self was probably furious with me—each in his own way—for selling out.

advice • teaching • interviews

I think he stumbled on telling the truth to save his own life—and it worked.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

Are you, like, actually a boy?

featured poets • poetry spotlights

A farmer named Amadou took him into a millet field to see a tree that was possessed.

from adoption to writerly sins...

The intensity and obtuseness of family bonds is a mystery few of us tire of.