These days my life is a lot like the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I mill about and wonder who among the crowd is an alien. Replace “alien” with “Trump supporter” and you’ve nailed my reality. They live among us. They cut in front of us in supermarket checkout lines. ...read more

"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was..." In the final days of July, 2009, I made the decision to torch my history almost entirely. I was standing in the middle of the Astoria apartment I had shared my wife at the time, an apartment she had already ...read more