(Essay originally published in Schwa Fire in Dec. 2014. Photos by Max Cooper.) When I met Wally just after moving to Asheville in early 2012, he was still deeply engaged in media reform advocacy, his life’s work. The nonprofit he ran was a unique blend of Internet service provider and progressive local news source for…
Tag: writing
The Sophisticated Savage
My first book, The Sophisticated Savage, was published in 2009. It’s based on my experiences in Ecuador in 2001, when I taught English for a summer on the Galápagos Islands, and 2005. From the back cover: An anthropological memoir with a romantic twist. A Harvard student and an ex-cannibal may seem like an unlikely pair,…
Work
Here are some of the projects I’ve created over the years. In addition, a complete list of my articles in Asheville’s Mountain Xpress can be found here. Most of my radio pieces can be found on my PRX page. Please also feel free to check out and subscribe to my YouTube Channel, which has a…