Mutant Journalism

I'm to give a talk to a big group of prospective students at Dartmouth College, where I teach creative writing. Here are links to some i...

Harvesting the little notebooks I often carry, filled with scribbles of words -- some mine, some others -- that seemed urgent and then are f...

Here's a splendid way to avoid real work: A literary map of the United States. That is, selecting a book for each state. Like a state bi...

Friend writes: "Remind me hat the phase of writing nonfiction where you think everything is shit and bears no similarity to what you h...

Some recent work:  "A Resourceful Woman,"  an Instagram essay published on  Longreads . This is the work I've been most invest...

The other day I met the head of the local chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, who told me about a talk they'...

And another thing: It's time to say no to Amazon. It was time years ago, but because so many of us are dense, Amazon's been making i...

Vermonters, New Hampshirites -- I hope you'll join me if you can tonight at Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, VT, at 7 pm, where I'll be...

My father, preparing to move, has been sending me boxes of old papers. Today's prescient find: a nonfiction story I wrote for Michael Le...

My new book, Radiant Truths ,  published April 29 by Yale University Press Read an excerpt, "This Mutant Genre." ...