As many reviewers have already said, Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars is a super smart look at the history of the American education system, with…
Continue reading → Dana Goldstein’s New Book and Why Teachers Are Not “Angel-Magicians”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Oh, Bari Weiss. You’re being so glib…
Continue reading → My response to WSJ’s transphobic (&idiotic) op-ed:
A few exciting updates: My collection of poems entitled "Short-Shorts" was named a semi-finalist in the Gazing Grain Press Feminist Poetry Chapbook contest. I'd been…
DC is supposedly the country's #1 gay mecca, yet 4 gay bars closed in the city in the last year alone. Wondering what's going on?…
My latest article is up at The Jewish Daily Forward. It's a profile of a prominent community leader in the predominantly Russian neighborhood of Brighton…
Continue reading → “Pat Singer Is the Mother of Brighton Beach”
Interesting article in The New York Times Magazine (an installment of Adam Davidson's always-interesting economics column) about the Bronx economy and why it hasn't prospered…
1.) Sam Taylor just finished an eleven-month tour in Iraq as a chaplain's assistant with the U.S. army. While enlisted, she hid her transgender identity…
If the guilty pleasure in watching reality TV shows is derived from the voyeuristic clips of outrageous, hair-pulling catfights and the chance to glimpse the…
Continue reading → My Latest Review: “Russian Dolls” Won’t Satisfy
About 150 homeless campers and activists affiliated with the OccupyNOLA movement were evicted from Duncan Plaza yesterday, Tuesday December 6. They had been occupying the…
Continue reading → Evicting Tent City in New Orleans: Look Familiar?
Loving this interview with novelist (and now memoirist) Oscar Hijuelos from Guernica magazine: Guernica: Could you elaborate on how your lack of spoken Spanish affected your relationship with…
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