The latest issue of The Oxford American contains an essay I wrote about my family’s move to Florida in the early 1960s. The essay also recounts my own travels in the state, eventually back to the town where my family first lived, Starke. You can read the piece here; it’s called “Culture Shock.”

Another essay of mine appeared this summer in a new magazine called Popula. That essay, which accounts for the ongoing attraction of Christianity, is called “The Extravagant Inversion of Values.”

Finally, last spring I published an essay in the New York Times about teaching writing. It was widely read, I’m gratified to say, and it can be found here; it’s called “The Soul-Crushing Student Essay.”

 

Photo: “Sealy” (2009), by Walker Pickering