Trayvon Martin

The week George Zimmerman was acquitted in the death of Trayvon Martin I was in the hospital tending to my new son, born on July 11. His birth was a joyous occasion. Needless to say, the trial result put a damper on the moment, as justice was yet again denied to a...

Passing the Page 99 test

Last week, I took the “Page 99 test.” If you’re not familiar with it, novelist and critic Ford Madox Ford believed that one should “open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” So I...