It’s taken a very long time to admit it, but yes, I am an environmentalist. There has always been some trepidation and awkwardness towards the…
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A Conversation with Angela Caputo Angela Caputo is an award-winning journalist with years of experience. Yet in many ways, she feels like she is just…
I like to think that my writing journey is just getting started, that my greatest growth and development is still ahead of me. My novels…
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some…
I don’t know if it’s been instructive, but it has been interesting to chart the reactions, negative and positive, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained has garnered…
Graphic novel is just a shorthand way of saying a comic book in long form. It sounds more grown up to say graphic novel than…
My most formidable years were spent watching The Simpsons, reading Archie comics and playing video games. Some of the most valuable lessons I was taught…
click here to download Climate change is a big, scary topic. It’s not always easy to talk about and it can be almost impossible to convince…
Mat Johnson writes “I grew up a black boy who looked white. This was in a predominantly African-American neighborhood
One of the more beautiful graphic novels I’ve read is Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (2009). The story follows Asterios, a self-centered “paper architect” (his designs…
It’s not that Joe Sacco is the first comics artist, a sequentialist if you’ll allow, to produce stories different from the bread and butter of…
These reflections have been nourished by Angela Davis’s totally badass autobiography
When I’m on a panel about writing mysteries, I’ll mention that any student or fan of the genre should read the Maltese Falcon by Samuel Dashiell Hammett
Asking me for the title of my favourite book is like asking a moth for its favourite flame. The fascination seems the same to me,…
Recently I did a presentation to the staff of the Western Center on Law and Poverty about the search for the narrative. The idea being…
The real world event of what’s been called the Cochabamba Water Wars found its way into two recent feature films. Cochabamba is the third largest…
I have no set idea of what Utopia looks like and I blame my youth on this. In fact, I can point to the day…