I’m writing this on Delta’s flight 11 from London Gatwick to Atlanta, where I’ll change planes for New Orleans, returning from a 14-day vacation in England, where I was born, and where I lived until I was 26: British. (photo …Read more…
THE AWL published my interview with the advice columnist Dear Sugar today: Last year, an anonymous writer took over the advice column Dear Sugar at The Rumpus. Soon, she’ll go public with her identity. Like many others, I’ve become obsessed with …Read more…
The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies has picked up a freelance story I wrote for the Portland Mercury this week on the hiring of former Willamette Week news editor Hank Stern by a government agency in Oregon, without an interview. It’s …Read more…
There are increasing murmurs about the internet being bad for you, Facebook and Twitter isolating people from reality, but I don’t buy it. Here’s why. You may remember last month Sue and I got stranded in Buffalo for a day …Read more…
Local TV stations are “not serious” about recruiting black talent, according to the first black anchor in the city, Warren Bell. Bell: Spoke up about lack of black recruitment in New Orleans TV last night… “Something’s wrong, y’all,” Bell told …Read more…