Book Excerpts

Irresistible Contentment
A poem

What Parents Lose When They Don’t Read to Their Kids
Sharing books with my children was about a lot more than literacy.

Paragraph
A poem

For Now
A poem

Passions of the Void
A poem

Weepers
A short story

What Hula Taught Me
Keeping a culture alive, one step at a time

When William F. Buckley Jr. Met James Baldwin
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.

How the Passionate Male Friendship Died
The “perfect” platonic bond used to be between two men. What happened?
