"We live in a culture where it can seem like everyone wants to be troubled. Nobody wants to be crazy...The story arc of mental illness does not conform to the redemption tale."
"I wanted to convey the ecstatic experience of performing really destructive music, and to articulate the kind of raw need that drives young people to do so."
If literary fiction offers an alternative to more mainstream "narratives of reassurance," can the oft-cited moral experiment of Heinz's Dilemma help us understand why such challenging work isn't more popular?
Looking back, you see than while many things happened before Renee was killed, this is really where all the other things start and, to a certain degree, end . . .
Let me start off by saying I love getting to teach writing. It’s the only job I have ever had that I didn’t despise—every other job has been some boss…
The first day of the AWP conference, I ran into my good friend Tod Goldberg. Since Tod is now, also, my boss and since I’d be doing some time unofficially…