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RED COOKED OXTAIL A while ago I was buying meat from Autumn Harvest farm and saw in their cooler two packages of meat not listed on the whiteboard: oxtails. They were...
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Earlier this week I read a Huffington Post piece about the writer Marie Calloway. It had a provocative title: “MARIE CALLOWAY PUSHES THE BOUNDERIES OF WHAT’S...
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THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN By Christina Stead  Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children is one of the most relentless novels I have ever read, comparable only...
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I wrote this poem in response to an interview I heard on NPR with a Granta editor. He had edited an issue with new, young novelists whom he characterized as bold and...
Read MoreKaitlyn Hunt
Florida is prosecuting Kaitlyn Hunt, a high school senior, for having a consensual sexual relationship with a 14 year old girl. I just signed a petition asking the...
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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE
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