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Terese Svoboda: The Last Book I Loved, An African in Greenland
I grabbed An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie from the fabulous New York travel bookstore, Idlewild, after my event with Stephen Elliott. I’d heard about the book for years as an...
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Terese Svoboda: The Last Book I Loved, Troubling Love
According to Europa Edition’s website, Elena Ferrante, one of Italy’s most important and acclaimed contemporary authors, has successfully shunned public attention and kept her whereabouts and her true...
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Crows and Taxis: Writing to the South Sudan
Crows circle, straight out of a novel by Kenya’s Nobel-nominee Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Only, the crows are circling the hotel pool, not the bush. I’m here in Nairobi teaching fiction for the Summer Literary...
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The Change Dance
I don’t dance said the Polynesian technician, our Telecom link to what’s beyond Atiu. We’re in the middle of the Pacific, on a tiny island that started cell phone service only six months ago. He’s...
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Climate Fiction and the Great American Desert
You think water is a California apocalyptic obsession: Jack Nicholson and his slashed nose in Chinatown. After all, a fourth of the state is actual desert, the Mohave’s drought creeping up to the...
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