Mentors: James Baldwin
He missed the first class. In fact, he missed the first three.
January 6th, 2012“Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State”By Antal Neville
Los Angeles Review of Books
Mentors: Marianne Moore
"One may be pardoned, yes I know / One may, for love undying."
January 3rd, 2012
Mentors: Marvin Mudrick
I would not tear papers apart — say they're no good and say they don't work — unless I believed that all of you are capable of writing good fiction.
December 30th, 2011
Mentors: Siddhartha Deb
While a student of his I often felt the tectonic plates of my own opinions and tightly-held ideas loosen or shift.
January 5th, 2012
Mentors: Stanley Cavell
I was inchoate and jelly-like in graduate school (kind of like a slime mold), but Cavell was kind to me anyway.
January 5th, 2012
Mentors: Steven Corbin
A reminiscence of his mentor, writing instructor, and friend.
January 7th, 2012
Mission Accomplished: On "Zero Dark Thirty"
In defense of Kathryn Bigelow's Best Picture-nominated film
February 24th, 2013
Model Villages, Short Stories, and Other Miniatures
When it comes to trying to make a piece of fiction, scaling down is an essential strategy. The world has "scalability" in spades.
July 25th, 2011
Molly Ringwald on "When It Happens to You"
I always feel much calmer when my characters are in turmoil
November 29th, 2012
Mr. Amis's Planet
Martin Amis has always been a casualty of his own biography.
April 25th, 2012
My Disappointment Critic
I hadn’t realized until Wood was off my pedestal that I’d built one. That I’d sunk stock in the myth of a great critic.
November 7th, 2011
My Sea: A Personal Journey through the Literature of the Salton Sea
August 26th, 2012
My Stephen King Problem: A Snob’s Notes
On the beguiling appeal of Mr. King
July 3rd, 2012
Mythmaking in Dawson City: A Nepali Searches for Canadianness
Falling under the strange spell of a Canadian tradition.
September 7th, 2012
Natalie Diaz, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Genres
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Jayne Cortez
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
