It’s true: many years in the writing, the story of my journey to India on assignment to cover the monsoon–an assignment that went so completely wrong that within two days of arriving I’d been officially banned from every office of the India...

Bugis Tonight’s research: plaintive emails sent off all over the world, like messages in bottles. I’m still trying to track down someone who can write Samaritan, a tiny community of fewer than 700 people, half of whom live in Nablus, half in...

Image courtesy calpoly.edu The Burlington Book Festival this past weekend was a great success, and among its successes was the emergence of the Champlain College Publishing Initiative, which turned up all over the festival. Here’s Jillian Towne’s...

True confession time: the first poem I ever published outside my high school literary magazine was through a vanity press. The entire process was intellectually and ethically bankrupt, especially my part in it. I saw an ad in one of the heavyweight...

At first, the whole episode reminded me of that incident in American Graffiti with the cop car, the hook and the chain. Curt Henderson, played by Richard Dreyfuss, is being hazed by the local gang The Pharaohs. He crawls under a cop car, parked in...