I am sitting in a café in Jackson Heights with Partha Bannerjee eating a quick dal and roti lunch. It’s a hunch, a gut feeling, using a journalist’s eyes and ears to notice the stories of teenagers who are often not seen young people confronted by something bigger than what they might be able to comprehend.” Living the American dream () “I’ve come to trust this dual instinct in myself, the confluence of nonfiction and fiction, journalism and imagination. Friedan’s Village(The Awl):Ī look back at Parkway Village, the birthplace of The Feminine Mystique YA Meets the Real: Fiction and Nonfiction that Take on the Real (The Horn Book ) When Donald Trump’s Assistant Cheated in my MFA Seminar (LitHub)Īs the clanging theatrics of both conventions start to recede, it’s important to note that you can’t fake your story, even in the political sphere. Their real accomplishment was to make ordinary Muslim Americans visible to the country. “ The Khans’ Real Triumph Over Trump (The Daily Beast)įorget Donald Trump’s obnoxious response to the Khans and the dust up that created. Trump-was far from a tolerant melting pot. But the Queens that I grew up in-the Queens that shaped Donald J. “Nowadays, most people think of Queens as a multicultural, cosmopolitan hub. Donald Trump’s childhood in Queens can explain his obsession with borders (Quartz) We now call it ‘diverse’ literature, but in those days, it was like a land mass that was just starting to show on the horizon, still inchoate, still to be written. I published this years ago in The Global City Review, but I like to come back to it, as it marks the moment when I was discovering my own credo of writing, of material, while struggling to write my first novel. Writing We Are All We Have was a humbling experience–learning to let go of the novel I thought I was meant to write, and discovering the novel that did get written. “Hitting the Road: How to find Courage to Find New Writing Paths” (Writer’s Digest) Teacher’s Guide for Sugar Changed the World.We Are All We Have Curriculum Guide, 5-8.We Are All We Have Curriculum Guide (Full), 9-12.We Are All We Have Abridged Curriculum Guide, 9-12.

One Death, Nine Stories by Marc Aronson