Writing

PRESS COVERAGE

NON-BOOK COVERAGE

New York Times: Southern Farmers Vanquish the Clichés

NPR: Commentary: New Orleans Politics

C-SPAN: speech

BOOK COVERAGE

New York Times: mention

Critical Studies in Improvisation: review

Literature and Theology: review

The Perennial Quest for Now: review & profile

Kirkus Reviews: review

Kenyon Review: interview

WYES-TV/Steppin’ Out: interview

WWNO-FM/The Reading Life: interview

KTEP-FM/Words on a Wire: interview

Jung Journal: review

New York Times: “What We’re Reading” mention

Esquire: review

People: review

JustLuxe: review

Bloomberg: interview

Times-Picayune: feature

Publishers Weekly: review

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: review

Kirkus: review

New Orleans Magazine: excerpt

Offbeat Magazine: feature

NOLA Defender: feature

Zocalo Public Square: interview

WNNO-FM: interview

KATV-TV (Little Rock): interview

KTEP-FM/Words on a Wire: interview

WYES-TV/Steppin’ Out: interview

NOLA.com: feature

WRITING

BASED ON A TASTE FOR CHAOS

Kenyon Review: Carpe Vitam: How to Do Things with Spontaneity

Bookanista: Adventures in Improvising

Assay: A Taste For Chaos: Creative Nonfiction as Improvisation

Yale University, IAAP and IAJS conference paper: Embracing the Back Streets and the Valueless

Jung's Red Book for Our Time chapter: Trickster, His Apocalyptic Brother, and a World's Unmaking: An Archetypal Reading of Donald Trump

BASED ON THE GORILLA MAN AND THE EMPRESS OF STEAK

Kenyon Review: Katrina Five Ways

Kenyon Review: Eshu on the Bayou

NolaVie: Native Tongues: Earner Sylvain

Tikkun: The Jews of Rampart and the Birth of Jazz

New Orleans Magazine: The Empire of Sizzzzzzle

Creative Nonfiction: Triumph of Preservation

ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING

Gilt Taste: The Most Important Fish in the Sea

Huffington Post: The Ol’ Boys of Braithwaite

Gastronomica: The BP Oil Spill and the Bounty of Plaquemines Parish

The New York Times: The Mississippi Delta Must Be Restored

OTHER

Kenyon Review: On “Birds of Paradise Lost” by Andrew Lam

C-SPAN: interview

Journal of Modern Literature: review

Jung Journal: review

TALKS

Improv, Hermes, and the Everyday Otherworldly. Bard College, Hannah Arendt Center, Feb. 15, 2016. read