"One of my reasons for starting Creative Nonfiction was to make the genre seem more legitimate and to secure its place on serious bookshelves"

Slipping through the cracks in the emergency room

Black? Brown? African American? When your children inhabit a world you could never have imagined

“My fundamental instinct remains a sense of wonder, a luminous amazement at existence”

"You never know what you’re going to find in the next folder."

“When experiences are common—universal, even—you can still find language for them that illuminates them in a new way”

"I feel like I bring that same investigative approach that I did to the lab to investigative journalism."

“Humility is about moving forward, doing the work, seeing what comes after you put the time in”

“Telling people what to do is beyond my purview. My obligation is to report on what is”

"I interview the driver every time I get in a taxi, and it always yields interesting results"