Archive for February, 2009

Doing Memoir

15 February 2009

In December 2002 I went to an information session for the New School’s graduate creative writing program. I took some notes during the session, notes that I recently rediscovered while trying to purge old files. The best thing I jotted down was this: a question asked by a fellow participant—a young woman, if I remember [...]

A Completely Different State Solution

3 February 2009

I can remember driving with my late father through western Pennsylvania. He was struck by the amount of land without a human figure in it. So much space! After a long silence, in a traveler’s trance resembling the chessboard trance, he said, ‘Ah, how many Jews might have been settled here! Room enough for everybody.’ [...]