“Until these collections, I didn’t believe you could write short pieces so clearly inspired by Chicano life.”

“You can tell a lot about a person by their Starbucks order.”

To escape the pandemic, a writer attends the most brutal clown school in the world.

I think it’s important not to be tone deaf about the current cultural climate. But I think there’s a difference between being tone deaf and playing a tune that people want to hear as a way of courting public approval.

The answer to the “Negro question” is a mix of sermon and jeremiad, calling attention to the gap between a desired moral universe and disastrous present reality.

“Up here he no longer needed to hide his voice.”