Some of what I’m doing, reading, thinking about
My latest newsletter is about my upcoming class in Miami and much more, including some of what I’m reading and thinking about these days.
My latest newsletter is about my upcoming class in Miami and much more, including some of what I’m reading and thinking about these days.
I’ll be at the Brattleboro Lit Fest, in Vermont, and the Lost Weekend Festival, in Baltimore, later this month. Hope to see you!
Over the past century, my family has given an enormous amount of money to extreme evangelical Christian preachers, back to my great-grandmother in Dallas, who was so poor afterward that she couldn’t buy food or firewood. Nowadays, my mom and stepfather also get their “news” from Kenneth Copeland’s Christian nationalist Victory Channel. Copeland is the preacher with three private jets who asked his supporters for donations so that he didn’t have to fly with “demons” on commercial air travel. Recent guests include Lauren Boebert and the former president.
One of my strongest hopes in writing Ancestor Trouble was that it might help some people feel less marooned with their own ancestor troubles. So you can imagine how touched and floored I was to find the book listed in The Atlantic by Tajja Isen—a writer and editor I deeply admire—as one of “Six Books That Will Make You You Feel Less Alone,” alongside great books like Saeed Jones’ Alive at the End of the World and others I need to read.