Readings

Marginalized, ignored, oppressed—many here are broken. The rest are trying desperately not to break.

The actor and writer joins us on the telephone from his Great Aunt Doris's home in Murray Hill. 

I should know how to pinpoint emotional vampires: experts watching from armchairs would conclude that the first one I encountered was my dad.

We're supposed to follow a certain narrative when our partners leave us. What happens when we flip the playbook? 

Epic death is too good for us.

There is the failure to do what’s expected of me, and the failure to do what I expect of myself.

It's strange to have moments of gratitude for something that’s slowly ruining a person you love.

The things we hope for in life—stability, moments of unexpected joy and recognition, the creation of a kind of legacy—are the same things many of us look for in what we read, and in what we write.

Islamic terrorism hasn’t occurred in a vacuum. If people wanted to hear from Muslims, they could have asked us a long time ago.