U.S. poet missing in Japan
Poet and volcano explorer Craig Arnold went missing on a small Japanese island three days ago. Call to continue the search. (Thanks, David.)
Poet and volcano explorer Craig Arnold went missing on a small Japanese island three days ago. Call to continue the search. (Thanks, David.)
Photographer Stephanie Keith has a sharp eye, a frank and unpretentious manner, and a vigorous, roving curiosity. For the past several years, she’s been documenting Voodoo ceremonies in Brooklyn’s Haitian community. Her early work in this area (captured in a 2007 NPR slideshow from which the image above was taken) centered on a priest Keith trailed, at his invitation. When . . .
Sometimes I write little draft pieces of my novel on my phone while commuting, but Peter Brett composed a whole book this way.
“There is so much wrong with Philip Jones’s ‘English writers outperform rivals’ post,” but let’s start with the title.
At one of our first dinners — or was it during a marathon phone conversation? — I discovered that Marie Mockett shares my admiration for Colson Whitehead’s work. I figured readers of this site would enjoy someone else’s perspective on his writing for a change, so I invited her to interview the author (who’s become a friend) about his new . . .