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Masked men, bare cocks, and sometimes a conversation
There are a thousand ways to make a binary split of the world’s population, and the one on my mind right now is this: there are the kind of people who pick up a ringing payphone, and the kind of people...
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What are you afraid of?
My ITP students went out on the street and asked (on video) about 40 people the question, “What are you afraid of?” It was remarkable how many of the respondents gave thoughtful, vulnerable answers....
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what you loved when you were nine or ten
There’s a beautiful passage early in the book The Conversations (a long rambling interview between film/sound editor Walter Murch and writer Michael Ondaatje), where Murch is talking about how...
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It’s pay what you can, not what you want
[Originally published June 15, 2010 at The Literary Platform] We are living in generous times. I don’t mean that in a hippie, random acts of kindness sort of way. I mean that we are living at a time...
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My Foo10 session–Secrets of human nature: 5 experiments you can do with...
Below are rough unedited notes from the session I did at Foo today. About me: -I make things out of words (stories, explanations), and really the main thing I’m always trying to do is show you...
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words and their failures
I am thinking now of the summer years ago when I taught expository writing to a group of 13-14 year olds, about twenty of them. We met every morning for three hours, much too long an interval for them....
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Stranger Studies
I recently published a narrative version of my ITP Strangers class on the Atlantic Magazine blog. Here’s an excerpt. “This is a class on urban culture. My fundamental premise is that strangers and...
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My first novel to be published June 2011
I’m so excited to announce that my first novel, Follow Me Down, will be published in June 2011 by Red Lemonade, an imprint of Richard Nash’s new publishing company, Cursor. You can see the cover here,...
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From Curator Journal this month, my conversation with Machine Project’s Mark...
The life of the street, at its best, is lyrical, unexpected, and momentarily intimate. Cities by definition comprise strangers, and when strangers find cause to break their urban detachment, the...
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