Articles

"Stardust Memories," Washington Post Magazine, March 29, 2009

Searching for Woody Allen's Manhattan.

"Lives to Remember: Del Ankers"

"Lives to Remember: Percy Julian, Jr."

Washington Post Magazine, January 11, 2009

Two of the year's notable passings.

“Fight Club,” Washington Post Magazine, Oct. 2, 2007

The first season of Washington, D.C.’s roller-derby team, the D.C. Rollergirls.

“Going With the Grain,” Smithsonian Magazine, September 2007

The rice harvest of the Ojibwe in northern Minnesota: both tradition and survival.

“The Saints Go Marching In,” Washington Post Magazine, May 13, 2007

Mormon missionaries in a historically African-American part of town.

“Big Time in Tune Town,” Travel, Washington Post Magazine, March 25, 2007

The big heart of tiny Branson, MO.

“The Best and the Brightest,” Smithsonian Magazine, March 2006

Where old neon signs go to die.

“Every Dog has His Sleigh,” Travel, Washington Post Magazine, Feb 25, 2007

Dogsledding, and getting really cold, in Ely, MN.

“The School of Yule,” Washington Post Magazine, Dec. 24, 2006

Becoming Santa Claus, at the oldest Santa school in the country.

“Christopher Denny,” self-titled debut album, Localist Magazine, Spring 2006

Local boy makes really, really, good: a review.

“The Return of the Cowgirl,” Travel, Washington Post Magazine, March 6, 2005

Herding cattle in New Mexico.

“Strip Search,” Travel, Washington Post Magazine, Sept. 13, 2005

Looking for my grandparents’ Las Vegas.

“Dale Hawkins,” Oxford American, August, 2005

He wrote Suzi-Q, produced some hits, and disappeared. Now he lives in North Little Rock, AR. Included in the forthcoming anthology, Greatest Oxford American Music Writing, University Press of Arkansas, 2008.

"Lindsey’s Bar-B-Q,” Little Rock Monthly, 2004

Restaurant review, 50-year-old BBQ joint.

“Tough Mother For You,” Oxford American, April 2003

Sometime around 1962 a burned-out soul-singer named Esther Mae Jones was doing nickel-and-dime gigs down in Houston’s Market Square…

“Designing New Technologies for a Better Life”

A new trend in industrial design: designing for--and selling to--the very poor.

World Ark, March/April 2008

“On the Natural Order of Things”

An interview with Wendell Berry on his front porch in northern Kentucky.

World Ark, Jan/Feb 2008

Poetry

“The Moving-Picture Principle,” The Paris Review, Summer 2004

 “Genesis: Errata in A,” Margie, 2003

“Memoir,” The Antioch Review, June 2001