Adjunctivitis An itinerant college instructor on a desperate quest for health insurance. “A laugh-out-loud story.” — This girl I met on Tumblr Available for $2.99 as an Amazon Kindle Single. (£1.99 in the UK). False Economies The romantic (mis)adventures of a young American in Thatcher’s London. “A very funny and poignant little book.”— My […]
This week I am featured on the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s How I Get By series. I kvetch about adjunct life and my hellish commute in Los Angeles. And yet today in New York City, as I was pelted by freezing rain, I was thinking that LA really wasn’t so bad. Regardless I thought […]
Fiction. I am grateful to have published a good amount of fiction in 2013. First and foremost, I got two novellas out into the world via Amazon’s stellar Kindle Singles program: Adjunctivitis, a novella about a part-time college instructor in L.A. in a desperate quest for health insurance False Economies, a novella about a […]
1. Even Religious Colleges Exploit Their Adjuncts! As you may know, Margaret Vojtko was a long-time adjunct who died penniless and uninsured. For me one of the more shocking parts of the story was that she worked at Duquesne University, a Catholic institution. This prompted me to write an opinion piece about the use […]
Adjunctivitis, my novella about an adjunct desperately seeking health insurance in Los Angeles, is for sale as an Amazon Kindle Single here. If you don’t own a Kindle, you can get a free reading app here. I I had a conversation with a student writing about Bedouins in Israel. “In Bedouin culture,” she wrote, […]
“A romantic comedy with a twist from a startling new talent.“ A struggling young writer, stuck with dead-end teaching jobs he’s literally allergic to, watches glumly from Hollywood’s fringes as everyone else seems to succeed. Then a chance encounter with television’s Mr. Big puts fame and fortune within his grasp — but is that what […]