In this spring’s issue of Bellevue Literary Review, please read my essay “Conduit.” It’s about voicelessness and serving as voice for another: my time as medical interpreter.

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Jul 21 2013

On the Name of God. Part I.

You say I took the name in vain. I don’t even know the Name. But if I did, well, really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light in every word. It doesn’t matter which you heard – The holy or the broken Hallelujah. (from Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah”)  “Hallelujah” is one of Cohen’s most …

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