She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.