May 2, 2012
O. Henry Prize Stories 2012
Anthony’s short story “The Deep” is included in the 2012 edition of the O. Henry Prize Stories.
News
April 1, 2012
A Defense of Libraries in Four Parts
Not Mom, not the prim librarians stamping return dates onto slip after slip. No one ever said: This book is outside your age range; this book is too complicated.… From Let Us Now Praise Libraries, Librarians, an April 1 op-ed in the Sunday Boston Globe.
March 4, 2012
Too Many Books, Too Little Time
This is how I feel, lately, about my reading life: dizzy, overwhelmed. Somehow, seemingly overnight, I have 70,000 choices… From Too Many Books, Too Little Time, a March 4 op-ed in the Sunday Globe.
January 17, 2012
The Moment
I have a short essay about almost drowning in a new book called The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure. There’re lots of smart, alarming, funny, charming, and fascinating pieces in this little book.
November 19, 2011
New Travel Essay in NY Times
Here remain some of the least-studied places in the world, with thousands of creatures that exist absolutely nowhere else. There are cecropia trees that swarm with ants if you rap their hollow trunks; cuckoos that throw their voices; strangler figs that latch onto another tree midtrunk, drop aerial roots down to the ground and choke their host tree to death. From Send in the Clouds a new essay in the New York Times T Magazine.
