I stumbled into using book covers as substrate in 2007 as I was trying to peel a label from an inside library book cover. It was stubborn, so I decided to leave it in its place and use the...

A physical book to me is like someone I’ve just met. I hastily judge it by its cover, sometimes critical of how it looks, deciding that the jacket looks too sad or silly or forbidding or...

All great narratives have a defining principle—a way in which the narrator understands the world. The guiding principle in Memorial Drive is simple: In trauma, there is a before and an...

But lately I find myself with other, perplexing questions and the need to seek words that best express the shock and confusion I am feeling.

And there you were, floating on a trash can lid, unashamed, spitting game to fine sistas

Ten-year-old me was mesmerized by Anne’s writings, every page an absolutely surreal accounting of a life that was almost impossible to imagine.

Excerpted from from a book-length work of prose poetry, Dolorem Ipsum, inspired by Nabokov’s Lolita.   Seneca, South Carolina August, Age 7   The Appalachian foothills at the end of...

Stumbling into the Pages of Ex-Wife, Marsha Gordon When I first saw the name Ursula Parrott on the cover of an unproduced MGM screenplay draft written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1938, I had...

That truth inspired me to read books that could give me leverage to ask the questions that would release the stories my elders had forgotten or refused to share. Subsequently, Taylor’s...

Why do I feel the pull of a bookstore like some kind of magnetic spell? Yes, I’m a zealous user of online information, but when I want to sink into another world, to read a tale spun by a...

It may well be that writing about cowards in combat is not very gratifying. But that is not what motivated me to write my book.

Interviewing authors about their books has taught me to be a better, more attentive reader. I am grateful for the opportunities to share their thoughts.