May 3, 2022Ten years after starting my Ph.D. program, six years after I started thinking, reading, and writing, I've finished my dissertation.…
October 10, 2021Content note: corpse desecration, genocide, graphic descriptions of violence, intergenerational trauma, racism Publication alert! "Chaos Itself Is an Order" has…
May 14, 2018After four years of teaching as a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information (SC&I), as I…
October 6, 2015As I belatedly discovered, "The meaning of a machete" was included among other "Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014" in Best…
May 12, 2014I defended my qualifying exams this afternoon and passed "with flying colors" despite the whole ordeal being a relatively traumatic…
August 22, 2013Last year, a 20-year-old man named Michael Israel committed suicide after battling addiction to painkillers. His father, Senator Tim Kennedy,…
April 13, 2012After years of hunting, I discovered my ideal literary agent had been right in front of me all along. I'm…
May 30, 2011China Used Prisoners in Lucrative Gaming Work No pun intended, but...WoW. Just wow. The Guardian reports that Chinese prisoners were…
February 27, 2005Baby's first book circuit! I've done interviews with The Dartmouth, The Concord Monitor, and The Valley News I have to…