by Kent | Oct 3, 2013 | Featured Entries, Writing
I like exploring at extremes, whether it’s trying to push my own limits or understanding someone else’s. A few recent thoughts: In the spring I traveled to Bangkok to write about people living and working in slums around the world. I wrote a cover story...
by Kent | Aug 2, 2011 | Featured Entries, Writing
Just read Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends with my five-year-old daughter. Somehow I’d never read his poems before, not as a kid or adult. What a delight. Look forward to reading more with my kids (though I did skip a poem now and then)....
by Kent | Jul 28, 2011 | Featured Entries, Writing
The Nervous Breakdown invited me to do one of their “self interviews.” I like their online magazine, but was dreading this a bit. Felt like it would take, well, effort. Because in regular interviews, you don’t have to take the creative initiative....
by Kent | Jun 16, 2011 | Featured Entries, Uncategorized, Writing
Writing is, for many of us, something we want to do and also like weaseling out of. Excuses are easy and plentiful. I wrote my last book in the midst of a crazy workload. Timeline was very short. I’d written my first book under completely different circumstances:...
by Kent | May 31, 2011 | Featured Entries, Writing
4-Start Review of “After Shock” in Christianity Today (April 2011 issue): “In earthquake-ravaged Haiti, questions range from the pressingly practical (how to rebuild one’s home amidst the wreckage) to the wrenchingly existential (how a just and...
by Kent | May 11, 2011 | Faith, Featured Entries, Haiti, Uncategorized, Writing
Here are four recent-ish interviews. They’re each excellent shows/websites/radio shows, and I really enjoyed the chance to talk with them: 1. On “100 Huntley Street,” a TV show in Canada: 2. Interview on a ReadTheSpirit.com: “Japan & Rob...
