Erik Gleibermann is a San Francisco social justice journalist, literary critic, memoirist and poet. He is a contributing editor for World Literature Todayand teaches writing in the Stanford University Continuing Studies program. He has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Florida Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and other literary magazines. He recently completed Jewfro American: An Interracial Memoir. Follow him on Twitter @erikgleibermann and read more of his writings at erikgleibermann.com/writings
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“Captain America punching Hitler in the jaw is Captain America knocking him across the room with the weight of the culture. The X-Men going from multiracial to white to needing…
Nice news: Figment, the writing community website for teens, receives $1 million. This is not your kid’s graphic book: Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John.…