
# 5 White Teeth
part 5 of a 10-part series I’ve written a lot these past few days, so I will just say this: Zadie Smith might be the

part 5 of a 10-part series I’ve written a lot these past few days, so I will just say this: Zadie Smith might be the

part 4 of a 10-part series Gather round, young Snapchat and TikTok fans, and attend the tale of GEN X IRONY. The year was 2000.

Part 3 of a 10-part series I was 22 or 23. I was in Boston visiting my college roommate Tara Copp, who had an internship

part 2 of a 10-part series In my junior year of college, I took a literature of war class. I’d been drawn in by the

Over on Facebook, a friend tagged me in one of those games where you post your favorite books for ten days. I figured I’d share

Last October, I went rock climbing in Hueco Tanks, an hour north of El Paso in West Texas. I’d never been rock climbing, but it

I woke up at 4:30am, cat in a C-shape beside me. Last night I finished edits on a magazine story, and I can never sleep

On Saturday I went to the most popular mall in Dallas, and I wrote this piece. I hadn’t planned to report on my state’s controversial

I was driving the long solitary highway to Alaska when the guy in the passenger seat asked if I knew Fountains of Wayne. Was that
A few years ago, I was talking with a couple female writers about what we’d do during a zombie apocalypse. One claimed she’d be good

The lights inside Taco Cabana had gone dark. It wasn’t even 7pm, and the neon of Lower Greenville was in high throb, Christmas lights still

A young woman named Vickie Lynn Hogan went to high school about seventy miles away from me in a small town called Mexia, Texas. She