Essential Tips for Aspiring Writers
If you can give language to experiences previously starved for it, you can make the world a better place.
Oct 2017
If you can give language to experiences previously starved for it, you can make the world a better place.
Aug 2017
To be a responsible world citizen, you need to understand how wide and beautiful the world is, and how many kinds of both pain and great joy it contains.
Aug 2017
Not a day goes by that I don’t have unsolicited correspondence from someone who is depressed and needs help, or from someone who is gay and suffering for it.
Apr 2017
We need new words for new kinds of relatedness, ones that don’t simply hark back to traditional roles
Feb 2017
The squalor was almost unimaginable.
Feb 2017
The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.
Jan 2017
Merkin is capable of being at once melodramatic and finely nuanced; she has so many good phrases about depression that it’s hard to choose among them.
Jan 2017
Suggestions for the President-Elect to consider for inclusion in his inaugural address.
Jan 2017
Freedom is a verb. It is something you live and achieve, that you must relive and achieve again every day.
Jan 2017
Andrew Solomon speaks at PEN America WRITERS RESIST, held on the steps of the New York Public Library, January 15, 2017.