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