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From the Noösphere to Out There
New story from the Star Tribune: Not long after I graduated from college in the mid-1990s, I got a job as a cashier at Midwest Mountaineering, a popular outdoors store in Minneapolis. The best thing...
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Slytherin toward Hogwarts
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Shortly after our arrival at Harry Potter World, as it is known among grade-schoolers, we passed through a brick wall with magical ease, and found ourselves standing...
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Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology
For the last year or so, I’ve been editing a new anthology for Belt Publishing, and it’s finally off to the printer. It has been a labor of love and I’m thrilled with how it turned out, thanks to all...
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Q&A with with Peter Hessler (Longreads)
From Longreads: In the fall of 2011, Peter Hessler arrived in Egypt, with his family — twin toddlers, and his wife, the writer Leslie Chang. The two had met in China, where Hessler first landed as a...
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The Science of Stories (Anthology)
There’s a new collection out called The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction, and I was very happy to have one of my essays, The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal...
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The Geography of Madness and the Best Travel Books of the Decade
I was thrilled to see the The Geography of Madness included on this list of the best travel books of the last decade, alongside books by Geoff Dyer, Katherine Boo and Andrew McCarthy, all of whom I...
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The Nation of Poets (Belt Magazine)
New story at Belt Magazine: Photo by Darin Kamnetz One night not long ago, I sat in a church basement in Cedar Riverside, a Minneapolis neighborhood where many of Minnesota’s fifty thousand Somali...
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A River of Darkness: Q&A with Peter Heller
From the Star Tribune: In 1989, Peter Heller was a few years out of college, trying to make a living. He delivered pizzas, worked construction, taught kayaking. In his free time, he wrote short...
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The Shape of the World: Essays (New Book)
In 2009, I was traveling across West Africa when I stopped in a hostel in Bamako, the capital of Mali. Inside the compound a trunk was parked. On its hood there was painted a giant wheel and the words...
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Book of the Year: Still True
Some years ago, I was teaching a class in Madison, Wisconsin on how to be a freelance writer. A woman named Maggie Ginsberg showed, and by the time the second class rolled around, she had already...
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