A bleak, all-too-true, commentary on the sorry prospects for serious writers and journalists written by a good friend, Frank Wilkinson, in The Week, here.

I will have the great, great pleasure on Monday, June 2, to talk with Frank Stasio, host  of The State of Things on WUNC-91.5 FM. The hour-long program airs at noon and again at 9 p.m. We will talk about family and journalism and a book called My Cousin the Saint. Our discussion will be archived on the station’s web site, too. I hope you can listen in.