PROJECTS

Writings
Hurricane Katrina: “Katrina Five Ways” in The Kenyon Review
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Spike Lee Gets It Right
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The Political Circus: Series Featured on NPR
Tales of an unconventional father who ran for Mayor of New Orleans on a campaign platform of gorillas for the zoo.

[PART 1] The Political Circus: The Gorilla Man
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[PART 2] The Political Circus: The Black Cat
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Travels with Dad : Series Featured on NPR
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[PART 1] Travels With Dad: Travel Clears the Mind
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[PART 2] Travels With Dad: Dad Meets His Match
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[PART 3] Travels With Dad:Props
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[PART 4] Travels With Dad: Money For Nothing
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[PART 5] Travels With Dad: Dad's Day
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[PART 6] Travels With Dad: Second Best
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The Empress of Steak and her Loyal Subjects
Read the appreciation of Ruth Fertel by her son Randy

Celebrating a Significant Anniversary
A piece on some New York friends written for the New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” (but declined in 46 seconds flat)
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Photography
Viet Nam
Europe
Ocean view

Teaching
Courses at the New School for Social Research
The Exiled Self (fall, 2007)
Literature and the Experience of War (fall, 2008)