I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the "I" into a "we" at all. I'm still surprised at how mad critics get at that kind of confessional writing.