This Brilliant Darkness

Michael Washburn's essays and criticism have appeared in&nbsp;The New York Times Book Review,&nbsp;The NYT Travel Section, the&nbsp;Washington Post,&nbsp;the&nbsp;New Republic,&nbsp;and elsewhere.&nbsp;Southern Accents&nbsp;is his first book and part of the 33 1/3 music series.

Michael Washburn

Seeing Together: Care, Community, and Connection in Jeff Sharlet’s “This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Yale University Press, April 2011. 155 pp.

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial

Returning to the Scene

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

Michael Washburn's essays and criticism have appeared in&nbsp;The New York Times Book Review,&nbsp;The NYT Travel Section, the&nbsp;Washington Post,&nbsp;the&nbsp;New Republic,&nbsp;and elsewhere.&nbsp;Southern Accents&nbsp;is his first book and part of the 33 1/3 music series.