Some Things Take Time

I read the following in  2005; Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine came out in 2015: Ironic essay, novelistic narrative, autobiographical fragment, historical fact. Flight of fantasy—the synthetic power of the novel is capable of combining…

Our Father

In the constellation of geniuses, he is a blinding light and father of us all. (I exclude Shakespeare because for Shakespeare no human epithet is enough.)… I think Ulysses is the most diverting, brilliant, intricate,…

LA Woman

Dear Bella Levenshteyn Got galleys for book and cover proofs.  Going to a cafe early tomorrow morning and see how it looks. I’d like to be handcuffed to you for six hours, at a bar,…