I first encountered Robert Crumb at my local Blockbuster, in the mid-Nineties, when Crumb became available for rental. I wasn’t more than ten at the time, so I didn’t understand…

Read more

From “I Was So Hopeful for You,” collected in the anthology What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, which will be published in May by Simon & Schuster. Before…

Read more

Read more

From a manuscript in progress. I used to think my grandmother peed pink. I would think it sitting on the toilet, hers, I was sure she had visited last. When…

Read more

I’m a father now. Please, hold your applause. As I write this, my son is fifteen days old, and I’m staring into the soft hurricane whorl of his hair, thinking…

Read more

Among the antinatalists

Read more

Read more

Published in Issue 15 of Fonograf Editions. The baby’s blameless, I can’t argue with that. She hasn’t told a single lie in her life, let alone cheated, however inadvertently, on…

Read more

Custody and care in the shadow of colonization

Read more