This spring sees the publication of On the Ropes, a long-awaited sequel to James Vance’s earlier graphic novel, Kings in Disguise, which…
A few weeks ago, courtesy of the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program, I was honored to join a group of high-school seniors…
Starting a new workshop at The Writer’s Center (and speaking at a book festival next weekend) has me rethinking the writing process.…
Thanks to Sunil Freeman at The Writer’s Center blog, First Person Plural, for posting my piece on how crisis shapes character, and…
Black history is detective work, uncovering clues and putting together narratives that survived underground for generations, or sometimes in plain view but…
In the 1930s young people with little experience, like Margaret Walker, Nelson Algren and Richard Wright, got on their feet with jobs…
In one of the last hurrahs of the Woody Guthrie centennial, a festival in Germany honored him today. The festival description points…
I’ve always gotten a strong feeling from walking through cemeteries, but I never realized why until I looked into two very different…
Fifty years ago this week, the Cuban Missile Crisisbrought a Cold War nuclear threat to millions of American homes. To mark the…
On the anniversary of the Occupy movement, a look back at how it appeared in three cities up the East Coast in…
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