Confusing, meandering, and utterly adorable. An examination of a gene’s drive to replicate and survive versus that said drive in an organism. Darwinism commingled with genetic theory, with the occasional side trip into game theory (Prisoner’s Dilemma!). I ask you, how can you resist? …we have the beguiling image of independent DNA replicators, skipping like chamois, free and untrammeled down the generations, temporarily brought together in throwaway survival machines, immortal coils shuffling off an endless succession of mortal ones as they forge ahead towards their separate […]

From the author of Sing, Unburied, Sing.  A collection of essays, memoirs, poetry, and short stories reflecting the state of race relations in this country in the time in which we have found ourselves. Some are amazing, some are not, but the first light-hearted piece called my name.  There has been a death, and cousins who are only remotely known to each other have collected for the funeral.  But they are teens, and it’s the hinterlands of Florida, and they make their way off to […]