It’s hard to describe one’s own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern
Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly
There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
We’ve learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P. address,
We quickly erase hoaxes once exposed, excising the monstrous palimpsest, because as with any witch hunt or obvious fake, afterward we can’t quite explain why
In African-American culture, there’s often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one
For ‘The Grey Album,’ I’d been thinking about the good side of lying – lying as a kind of improvisatory act in black culture. Afterward,
I remember in the ’80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist.
I think Barnum is at the center of American culture. He’s helping to invent what we now think of as pop culture. He invented pretty
I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a story
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