Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

the romance of solitude and small places, the blurring of identity.

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder

If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.

I like making movies.

Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.

First, I wanted to answer the question I'm most frequently asked: "How did you become who you are?" Well, you had to know John and Angelena Rice.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.