Janisse Ray

In Memory of Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy is dead. He was 89. Raven told me about it the morning of the 14th, that Cormac had died the day before, and I …

"Writing well is a matter of figuring out what obsesses you," my professor in grad school William Kittredge told me. Out of all …

One exercise I did while in grad school helped me learn to pay better attention to the world around me, and I wanted to review it …

Social media taught me that I’m not as smart as I thought. In fact, name any subject and someone knows more about it …