When we turn a knob to release a stream of water or flip a switch to illuminate the darkness, what are we really doing? We're hacking reality.
In the next installment of our serial novel, after-school detention takes on a sinister dimension for Hasta and her ex-friend Gillian.
In the words of the immortal Mallory Archer, “Always know where the exits are.”
In this inaugural chapter of our serial novel, Chicago teen Hasta Veeramachaneni gets her first inklings of something odd about her high school.
I spent three years writing a young-adult urban science-fantasy thriller. The brave kids at its core broke my heart in more ways than one. This year I'd like you to meet them.
With eerie prescience, a three-decade-old photograph provided the perfect metaphor for my misadventures as a Mormon missionary.
A poem written on the occasion of moving back to Queens after years away, and once again riding the N train.
On a hot night in 1997, Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee offered me an indelible lesson in owning your own identity.
In the main, we humans believe only in the miracles experience tells us could actually come to pass. Is that really so miraculous?
Returnable books are what enable brick-and-mortar stores to maintain an affordable inventory. But they also put a huge burden on small publishers — like me.
An expedition to cut your own tree can forge indelible Christmas memories. But indelible doesn't necessarily mean good.
On May 14, 2021, I left my day job at a major health insurance company. This is the email I sent to the CEO before logging off.
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