Are you taking an educational holiday at the Chautauqua Institution this week (which, thematically—as you’d presumably know, if you’re there—happens to be Week Four: 21st Century Cities)? Are you wondering: What shall I do tomorrow afternoon, after the lecture on a religious theme, and before the evening’s performance by the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra? Shall I [...]
My story “A Note about This Business with the Bear” is in the second annual summer fiction issue of The L Magazine, which came out on Wednesday. The issue also features stories by Darin Strauss, Ned Vizzini, Christopher Kang, Dominique Fabre, Danielle Evans, and the winner and finalists of the magazine’s Literary Upstart competition. As [...]
I don’t know why I haven’t mentioned this before in this space—oh no wait, I totally know why, it’s because we’ve been so completely insanely busy for months now looking for a place and then finding a place and then moving a hundred miles with us and the cat and every last one of our [...]