The Stars Are Fine, So Dance!

Today, my hometown celebrates the art and industry that puts bread on our tables and fosters dreams in millions of hearts. It’s the Academy Awards, and many of us are rooting for our favorite dreamweavers to walk away with the gold statuette aprocryphally dubbed...

Dance of the Big Hunger: Time to Vote!

It’s election time in America. In case you hadn’t noticed. The national temperature is way, way up, bringing to mind the apocryphal Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” As kin on the right coast struggle to climb from the...

Celebrating Indie Books!

Here’s a terrific way to show your support for indie books and to cheer for The History of My Body, which has been named a finalist for the 2011 Book of the Year! Come join me at the American Library Association’s 2012 Annual Conference & Exhibition...

A Tribe Called Facebook

The Woodstock Nation was about nothing if not social transformation and community. (Well, it was also about sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and mud – lots and lots of mud – but that’s for another day.) Which may be why, after an initial reluctance to fully embrace...