Last April, the inaugural version of a conference that was a long time in coming, Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing   (TIP1...

Sometimes conversations about changing the world, or at least about interventions that might spark real change, can lead to tangible outcom...

KGB Bar , one of the East Village staples, where many a young writer, including yours truly, has read work in progress. In the 1990s the cr...

I watch too much TV, still. I say every single day that I am going to cut back, and I have had periods (like winters in Chicago ) when I cou...