June 19, 2018

The other night I listened to yet another discussion on NPR about fake news, and someone commented that Americans really need to train high school students “how to think” so they have the tools necessary to identify fake news. Another panelist countered with the suggestion that high school students are already learning “analytical thinking skills,” […]

I have written a book. After sitting on that first sentence for two days now, I still can’t help thinking it sounds like a threat. At sixteen, I wrote short fiction. At twenty-six, I wrote out my lectures. At thirty-six, I was only finishing one or two short stories a year, fiction was largely becoming