Avidly: A Channel of the LA Review of Books, June 2017
"But that past is still embedded in you. It doesn’t matter that you’re writing this while listening to Miles Davis and sipping sauvignon blanc. You’re still descended from that domestic beer-drinking, wrought-iron pounding, racial slur-spouting—across various ethnic and cultural divides—lineage that you try to hide behind a couple smart references to Foucault and a passing knowledge of post-modernism. You carry around that Faulknerian aphorism like a totem: The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past."