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Is burnout a big force, like depression or exhaustion? Or is it an “incremental perturbation,” as John Barth calls drama...

My cohort in the Miami MFA was a bit older and more diverse than others. We had among us a...

I’ve always been interested in how we know where to go before we know why. It felt accidental some years...

1. Cluelessness2. Terror3. Hope4. Competence5. Hubris6. Comeuppance7. Sabbatical Note: Adjuncts should omit Age 7 and carry on with Age 6...

It was a fair start, for an ironical life, to be born American in Saigon, Vietnam, on Ho Chi Minh’s...

A student pouted at me in conference today and said she doesn’t care about writing or reading well. She wants...

My wife makes more money as an internationalization coordinator than I have ever made, even as a corporate writer. That’s...

Multiply 15 minutes of fame by 6 billion people, and you’re bound to run across someone famous sometime. Some encounters...