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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Do you read in the bathroom? Of course you do, who doesn’t? For those of you who take the newspaper, magazines, or a paperback, there should be nothing hazardous about…
“‘When girls look to the media for models they can achieve in the real world, they see newspapers and TV anchors talking about female politicians’ haircuts and fashion choices,’ says…
This week in New York, Scary stories with Storychord.com; Deborah Baker on The Convert at the NYPL; a reading by US Poet Laureate Philip Levine; Colson Whitehead on zombies at…