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Atlantic’s Books To Make You Feel Less Alone
One of my strongest hopes in writing Ancestor Trouble was that it might help some people feel less marooned with their own ancestor troubles. So you can imagine how touched and floored I was to find...
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Christian Nationalist News and Private Jets
Over the past century, my family has given an enormous amount of money to extreme evangelical Christian preachers, back to my great-grandmother in Dallas, who was so poor afterward that she couldn’t...
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Appearances in Brattleboro and Baltimore
I’m excited to be visiting two places I love—Vermont and Baltimore—later this month. October 14, 2023: Brattleboro Lit Fest, with Liz Scheier (Never Simple). In person. Brattleboro, Vermont, 9:30 AM...
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A Conversation with Sunny A. Smith at Fort Mason
Bay Area friends—I’m delighted to be in conversation with Sunny A. Smith at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco this Saturday for the celebration of their The Compass Rose catalog, which memorializes...
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Mirror Twins and 70s Cults with Abbott Kahler
Today is publication day for Abbott Kahler’s deliciously suspenseful and widely recommended first novel, WHERE YOU END! I’ll be talking with her at The Mysterious Bookshop in Manhattan tonight at 6...
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Some of what I’m doing, reading, thinking about
In the past, I’ve only posted links to my Ancestor Trouble newsletters here under special circumstances, but going forward I’ll be mentioning them, because I’m often asked what I’ve been reading and...
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Family stories we “can’t tell”
I’m teaching a creative writing workshop—Family Stories We (Tell Ourselves We) Can’t Tell—for the Miami Book Fair, as part of the festivities around the 2024 Miami Big Read featuring Madeline Miller’s...
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A Conversation With Idra Novey
Idra Novey’s Take What You Need is an exemplary novel, one of my favorites of recent years, as subscribers to my newsletter may recall. I’ve read the book three times and I’m looking forward to...
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Art & Kinship: Emily Raboteau’s Lessons For Survival
As promised, if a little late: the first subject of my new Art & Kinship series is Emily Raboteau, whose work I’ve been reading with admiration for almost two decades. Her new book—Lessons for...
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Art & Kinship: Garrard Conley’s All the World Beside
My latest newsletter is on Boy Erased author Garrard Conley‘s first novel, All the World Beside, a singular and magnificent work of art: tender, hopeful, shot through with dour fundamentalist judgment...
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