Sunday Content #42: Sunday, March 4, 2018 Then one day it was a book, a commercial product, and I was on the road. The book launch was in Brooklyn and packed and I was jubilant. I did book events in Manhattan and Portland and San Francisco and Marin and Los…

Sunday Content #41: January 28, 2018 I used to teach undergraduates at a big public university in the Midwest. My students were overwhelmingly white and suburban and, as I’ve written before, uncurious. I had assembled my first syllabus before I moved to Iowa, guessing as to what these people would…

Sunday Content #40: January 29, 2017 So as some of you know I wrote this book about schizophrenia. It’s not quite done but it’s real close. Anyway I mention it only because when you write a book about schizophrenia, you end up reading the whole time about eugenicists. How the…

Sunday Content #39: January 1, 2017 I hadn’t looked at my Pocket queue in a whole lot of months. There were lots of pre-election and election and post-election things in it, I knew. I waded through it all. I looked at headlines and tweets written by people confident that Hillary…

Hotter and less predictable temperatures mean that much of the world’s premium wine regions are now under threat and new ones are emerging. How the wine industry is — and isn’t — reacting says a lot about the future of agriculture. — Originally published at www.buzzfeed.com on November 20, 2014. “All the grapes were ripening at once,” Wendy Cameron recalls of the harvest that was the wake-up call.

Whether she’s comfortable with it or not, the Barefoot Contessa star has one of the most devoted fandoms among cookbook giants. An unprecedented look inside her picture-perfect empire. — I have been inside the barn, the barn, and I can tell you this: Inside, it was beautiful. I didn’t grow up with religious institutions, really, but there was something about the space that was, assuredly, holy. When I first entered it, I leaned back, mouth agape, and took in…

Sunday Content #38: November 13, 2016 — I was talking with a friend of mine. He’s trans. He lives in a rural place. He has friends who voted for Trump. I was telling him about how it’s been a rough week to live in a high-rise building, as I do, with a balcony. I spent Wednesday half-thinking…

A Letter I Sent to My Hometown Newsletter — Many of you perhaps remember me. Some have probably moved to town since I left, which was over a decade ago now. I went to college back east and then graduate school in Iowa and then moved to New York. I was an editor at BuzzFeed for a few years…

Sunday Content #37: November 6, 2016 — The night Barack Obama was elected president I got naked. A whole house of us, crammed around a television, booze flowing, when they called it for Obama on TV, we screamed, we rushed outside, stripping off everything as we ran. There were about twenty of us; I was the only…