Defenestration magazine has published a short humor piece of mine in this month’s issue–a list more than an essay. It makes a pretty rough teaching summer seem a little more worthwhile: “Excuses for Late English 112, Section 004 Papers from a Large, Unnamed Community College in Virginia”

Lately, due to a class I’m slated to teach this fall on the subject of “truth and memory in creative nonfiction,” I’ve become obsessed with the ideas of memory vs. reality and the recounting of stories that walk the wobbly line between fiction and nonfiction. So, I was especially excited when my friend (and unofficial […]

My good friend and racquetball partner/enemy Benjamin Wilkins has recently published two of what I consider to be the coolest essays ever–graphic essays. Some folks are aware that I’m not much for comics (see this post), but graphic nonfiction kind of has me hooked lately (next up Maus I and II, which I’ve been meaning to read […]

I just finished reading Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, a graphic memoir that won just about every award out there in 2006, the year it was published. The book focuses mostly on Bechdel’s childhood in Pennsylvania and her relationships with her family, specifically her closeted homosexual father, as she grew up, and her own realization […]