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One of the scariest things about publishing a book? Waiting for the feedback. I’ve been on pins and needles the last couple …

One of the scariest things about publishing a book? Waiting for the feedback. I’ve been on pins and needles the last couple …

It’s been a long, strange year. Like many, I’m damn delighted to see it go. Like counting the minutes until midnight and …

Amid the debates about whether we’re starting a new year or a new decade, I saw a Twitter thread last week about …

“Please save me a seat!” I texted, frantically hustling down Pratt Street towards the Baltimore Convention Center. Naturally, when I had cut the …

Ask any educator. August is a month full of intense ambivalence. The last vestiges of summer feel tinged with anxiety over to-dos …

Friend who’s staying over this weekend for airshow practice: “What are you up to today?” Me: “Writing my section of a joint …

Like most college professors the day after finals week, I should be grading. The paper piles, more than half-vanquished but still huge, …

I love the stereotypical image of a writer: A solitary figure, holed up somewhere chain smoking and drinking buckets of booze coffee, …

It’s obvious when a class’s honeymoon period is over. It happens after the first essay is graded and it feels like deflated …