What Can You Do with $900 Million?
A response to the Koch Brothers' pledge to spend $900 million on the 2016 election, comparing the new business elite to the robber barons of the past century.
The VCFA Winter Residency, 2015 edition: Remembering Bonnie Christensen
Key moments at the winter residency at Vermont College of Fine Arts, including celebrations of the work of Bonnie Christensen and Katherine Paterson.
I Am Charlie
Pictures and thoughts on freedom of expression and the deadly attack aimed to silence the satiric French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Revisiting Those New Year’s Resolutions
An analysis of why my New Year's resolution for 2014 failed so spectacularly, and an equivalent tongue-in-cheek resolution for 2015.
My Cybils Reading by the Numbers: In Appreciation of Libraries
An appreciation of the public libraries that allowed me to read 128 books in the past two and a half months for the Cybils, and advice for ending your novel.
Cybils Update: The Osmosis Strategy of Writing
An update on my work as a first-round panelist for the 2014 Cybils YA Fiction category and what I have learned for my own writing.
The “I Am Here” Reading and Exhibition and the Brooklyn Blossoms Book Club
A report on a panel of the Brooklyn Blossoms Book Club, featuring four award-winning black women authors and a photo exhibit celebrating black girls and women.
What Makes a Book Fun to Write?
The arrival of my ARCs of Surviving Santiago from my publisher, Running Press Kids, leads me to think about what made that novel so much fun to write.
What Part of “Black Lives Matter” Don’t You Understand?
Police killings of unarmed black men is a human rights issue in a country in which some people live in democracy and others in a police state.
I Celebrate Buy Nothing Day
My reasons for observing Buy Nothing Day instead of Black Friday, along with a review of a YA novel that explores the global consequences of buying stuff.
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