Wreck and RecoveryWatching George and Tammy, the Showtime miniseries about the tempestuous marriage of George Jones (Michael Shannon) and Tammy Wynette…Feb 4Feb 4
Death Among MillionairesThe rich are different than you and me. Sometimes they get away with murder.Apr 13, 2021Apr 13, 2021
The Book of RuthFrom the AIDS epidemic to Covid, with an earthquake in between, Project Open Hand has never stopped feeding people with loveFeb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021
The Outsider: Jeffrey Epstein at the Dalton SchoolNote: I wrote this story for Town & Country, where I am a contributing writer, before Epstein was found dead in his cell at the…Aug 30, 2019Aug 30, 2019
Alt and Catch FireWe’re about halfway through the second season of Amazon’s Man in the High Castle and if the series hasn’t gone off the rails (the way last…Jan 2, 2017Jan 2, 2017
How Great Is Allah?Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar on Islamophobia, losing one’s religion and what Jerzy Grotowski has to do with any of it.Nov 15, 2015Nov 15, 2015
Neatness Counts: Does this company have the worst customer service ever?Okay, when it comes to the declining state of customer service, including the impossibility of ever talking to a live person, the bar is…Oct 24, 20151Oct 24, 20151
A Sense of the Land: An Interview with Gary SnyderLast month I interviewed Zen poet and California native Snyder for an article in Newsweek; he had come to San Francisco’s Nourse Theater to…Jul 4, 20151Jul 4, 20151
I posted this old story about my father’s suicide on Facebook on Father’s Day — not to be a downer…Jun 23, 2015Jun 23, 2015