Recently at a writer’s conference—AWP in Seattle, for those who are curious—I bumped into a colleague I knew […]
Category Archive: Generation X
Boomer nostalgia is currently defining our reality. Trump is in office largely because a lot of aged white […]
In Garry Trudeau’s animated short film, A Doonesbury Special, the stoner ex-hippie Zonker announces to his group of […]
In a possibly, and very likely, apocryphal story that circulated among my social circle at the University of […]
Occasionally, when I’m speaking to a class of 100 18-year-olds, I make the mistake of referring to them […]
Over the past couple months or to be more accurate years, numerous commentators have bemoaned the apparent narcissism […]
Sometimes it seems American soccer fans can’t win. “The problem is your soccer obsessives. By my reckoning, they […]
The advantage of surprise can overcome a multitude of sins; poor planning, mediocre workmanship, sloppy execution, they can […]