The Young Friends Pleasure and Benefit Society

Here is a link to the essay I wrote about my visit to my grandparents’ cemetery in Queens. They belonged to a burial society called The Young Friends Pleasure and Benefit Society. The day I went was the day after the collapse of the textile factory in...

Best American Essays 2013

I was thrilled to find out that my essay “Pigeons” was just selected by Cheryl Strayed for the Best American Essays 2013 anthology. This was especially gratifying given how many editors initially rejected the essay. I kept submitting it because the...

“All of Us, We All Are Arameans”

If you would like to download a copy of my new novella-length essay, “All of Us, We All Are Arameans,” which Ploughshares just published as part of its Ploughshares Solos series, here is the link: “All of Us, We All Are Arameans”. I wish I...