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…
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…
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…
Yesterday, my family buried our guiding light: Dick “Po” Griest, my father. I spent the last week writing his eulogy. Sharing it with all of our friends and family who gathered yesterday was the great honor of my life. I…
A novel has emerged from the humanitarian crisis at the border. Not only is it an indictment of U.S. immigration policy, but a requiem memorializing every child who has ever lost their right to a childhood. Here is a snippet of…