Friends! Here are the confirmed tour dates thus far for ART ABOVE EVERYTHING. I cannot wait to share the stories of these powerhouse artists with you! Like Hope Azeda, playwright and founder of the Ubumuntu Festival in Kigali, Rwanda. Like…
Let me now introduce the inaugural member of the global congregation of art monks featured in my new book ART ABOVE EVERYTHING: Sheryl Oring! We met in New York City a quarter-century ago, when the National Coalition Against Censorship (where…
A month away from launching ART ABOVE EVERYTHING, it feels time to share the genesis of my book’s subject: Art monks. Eighteen years ago, I did a series of writing residencies in a Catholic house of prayer in South Texas…
Dearest friends. Thank you for everything you are doing to make these terrifying times a little less so. I see your efforts and feel deeply grateful for them. Along with community, what is fortifying me these days is art. For…
Dearest community, I write with exciting news! At long, long last:: ART ABOVE EVERYTHING, the book project to which I have devoted the past decade of my life, has both a pub date and a cover:: “Is the all-encompassing quest…
Dearest friends. Next month, I turn the big 5-0. To mark this milestone, I wish to fulfill a lifelong dream of endowing a grant for student journalists at my alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin. Once seeded, TESTIMONIOS…
Join me this summer for a weeklong Creative Nonfiction workshop called WRITING THE BODY, in which we will narrate the wide range of experiences a body can undergo in a lifetime. We will start with an exploration of notions of…
In our pre-Covid world, I would be in South Korea right now. Although I blotted my calendar’s contents with white-out eleven weeks ago, I can still make out SEOUL in today’s box in phantom script. I am growing strangely accustomed…
Feliz 2020, everyone! I hope that your new year is off to a grand start. Just wanted to share the news that All the Agents & Saints has just been released in paperback, and includes a new preface about the borderlands in…
The vaunted travel writer Paul Theroux has just released a mammoth new travelogue about Mexico called ON THE PLAIN OF SNAKES. Here is an excerpt of my review for the Washington Post: ….”Minus a few policemen, nearly everyone Theroux meets…