Brian Gresko
BRIAN GRESKO is the editor of When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood (Berkley Books/Penguin). He has written for Poets & Writers Magazine, Salon, TheAtlantic.com, Slice Literary Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, or at briangresko.com.
A Crisis of Faith
By Brian GreskoIn the beginning is a 12-year-old boy named Josiah Laudermilk, son of Gill Laudermilk, grandson of Orren, preaching to a congregation 4,000 large in Queens, 1980, with a Star Wars action figure secreted in his pocket, his heart anxious to meet his father’s expectations and impress the boys who find him weird for his piety, and who, in an “inspired riff, divinely played,” prophesizes that Jesus Christ will return on a great white horse in the year 2000.
A Crisis of Faith
By Brian GreskoIn the beginning is a 12-year-old boy named Josiah Laudermilk, son of Gill Laudermilk, grandson of Orren, preaching to a congregation 4,000 large in Queens, 1980, with a Star Wars action figure secreted in his pocket...
What, Exactly, Would Lynne Tillman Do?
By Brian GreskoLynne Tillman’s new book What Would Lynne Tillman Do? takes its title from a promotional campaign run by Dear Dave, a magazine of photography and writing put out by New York City's School of Visual Arts, which ran a print ad and then glued posters around downtown bearing only those five words.
