New Book in the Works

I’m thrilled to report that my next book, an essay collection called Partisans, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in May of 2017. The pieces in Partisans are about choosing-up sides. From a trip through Mexico that my wife and I financed by attending timeshare presentations (“The Low Season”) to a suburban encounter with a soon-to-be murderer (“The Mercy Kill”) to a night watching college football with a racist Crimson Tide fan (“Partisans”), I take on the question of where and why we draw boundaries—both personal and cultural. What’s the border between us and them? How do we decide who’s in, who’s out, and who belongs where? More news and information to come over the next year.