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Jun 12, 2026
I’ve never been called “trailer trash”, but I did live in a trailer in Northeast Georgia in my early teens.
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May 11, 2026
I always imagined I would write something about Edmund White after his death. What I never imagined was the death itself. It came on the evening of June 3, 2025. I found out the...
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Apr 24, 2026
In 2014, in London for a bookfair, I found myself at dinner with an English editor who expressed his admiration of Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station. I had read it not...
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Jan 30, 2026
Gentrification is perhaps unique among purported societal wrongs in that its most vociferous critics stand at its vanguard. An almost too-pat example is Cea Weaver, the tenant...