When you are a writer and a teacher, people, students mostly, sometimes ask you if you think that they are writers, the que...

Three decades ago, creative writing programs were relatively new. The University of Pittsburgh, where I was then teaching, didn’t h...

The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker I know. I know. Bear with me here. Professional wrestling...

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We live in a new America, I tell my students. A diverse America, a multicultural America, and our stories matter more now than in any part ...

At Open Letters , we're (as beloved Boston book-dealer George Goodspeed used to say) in books . It's ...