Steve Almond: A Decade of Magical Thinking. Excerpt from The Rumpus

Todd Riddle A small tribute to all those lost in 9.11

“One of the duties of the artist – not the only duty, but a central one – is to impel people to imagine the complexity of thought and feeling inside another person.”

GMP Contributors Reading in Boston on September 16

raddadfinal300

On Friday, Jeremy Adam Smith, Steve Almond, and Tomas Moniz will be reading in Cambridge.

A Day at the Park

Hands

Do we really live in a society that is still stuck in the lie that Black men cannot be fathers?

Beautiful on All Sides

Photo by wonderlane

‘The privilege of being white in the U.S. is that you don’t have to see race. But for a growing majority of people, ethnicity is fluid; it’s piecemeal, chosen, reclaimed, refused, relearned.’

On Race

On Race

Why is race so difficult to talk about?