I’ve got a new essay, “Home Range,” in the spring/summer issue of South 85 Journal. If you’ve launched a kid into the world and/or lost a parent, you might relate. Here’s a taste: The summer my mother crossed out of our lives, my son and I hit the road. It was 2021, a year of… Continue reading »
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BOOK WARS: Me in the LARB
The Los Angeles Review of Books asked me to write about BOOK WARS: THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION IN PUBLISHING, sociologist John B. Thompson’s epic new study of how publishing has evolved over the last 20 years. (TL:DR: The digital era has changed publishing in all kinds of ways, but the print book is doing just fine, thanks.)… Continue reading »