Here are some essays I’ve written. You’ll find more essays on Substack.
"On being a paperboy." Dappled Things, Apr. 2, 2024.
"Can all American literature be classified in two camps?" Dappled Things, Oct. 17, 2023.
"What Rotimi Taught Me." Dappled Things, Jan. 3, 2023.
"Losing My Ethnicity." Dappled Things, Jan. 13, 2022.
"The Way We Read Today." You Might Need To Hear This, July 22, 2021.
"Read a book (with pictures!)." The Horn Book, May 14, 2021.
"What Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and Dickens teach America today." New York Daily News, Dec. 17, 2020.
“A rocket to a hopeful human future.” New York Daily News, Sept. 26, 2020.
“What a dog did for us.” New York Daily News, May 19, 2020.
“We’re going to be okay.” New York Daily News, Apr. 15, 2020.
“When you know that the world is not meant to be like this.” America, Nov. 23, 2018.
“How literature can unify us.” New York Daily News, Oct. 25, 2018.
“The nightmare of child separation.” New York Daily News, July 9, 2018.
"Our children understand our government's immorality." New York Daily News, June 20, 2018.
"Let them roam." New York Daily News, Oct. 22, 2017.
"Yearning for a time before all this." New York Daily News, Sept. 11, 2017.
"It's time to get beyond low earth orbit." Boing Boing, Jan. 5, 2017.
“10 Great Tips on How to Write a Book with a Co-author.” Writer’s Digest, Nov. 30, 2016.
"My Life, Unstuffed." America, June 23, 2016.
"Hope in the Silent Stars." America, Dec. 16, 2015.