Wild Are the Winds to Meet You
On September 18th, the night Scotland voted on its independence from the UK, I was standing on the porch of a Civil War-era mansion after a reading. It was storming.
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City Resolution
Author Chris Colin finally brought his daughter to New York, after years and years away, and it may as well have been a new city: I began seeing grand indifference everywhere.…
Finding Home
Growing up all over the place makes you skilled at adapting, but it also makes you hungry to belong, something that in part motivates my writing: carving out a space…
On Loving and Leaving New York: Home
Driving down Second Avenue, we saw the usuals: skater kids and college students, queens and models and junkies. My heart hurt more and more. The landmarks of my most troubled memories now filled my heart with longing. I even missed my ghosts.
The Unmade House
We never moved. We just faded out of the house. Let me clarify what I mean when I say “we”...
Memory and Work
“I feel totally curious and alive and in control. And almost… magnificent, when I write.” The Guardian converses with Toni Morrison about writing from within, the death of her son,…
All of Us, Anchored in Place
“…isn’t it strange, I mean, this thing about being a human being breathing and thinking and sensing and dwelling always, always, in a place?” This essay in the Millions is…