The author of Hidden Valley Road on true crime reporting, family secrets, and finding stories. 

I followed a desire to witness, but not control, the inner workings of living things.

This was a real friend. Like old times—better times. When your chip bags spilled over and your idols reeked and all your friends tried to kill you.

The author of Funny Weather on publishing a book during a global pandemic, the eternal appeal of outsider artists, and living with an oncoming sense of catastrophe.

Mom wasn’t interested in being the type of mother—or wife—who put her own life on the back burner

Prepared for every situation, even pandemic, mothers should be the ones on TV when our nation is under attack by terrorists or viruses.