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May 3, 2024 · Michael writes about dark, absurd scenarios and seeing how his characters react, and also writes opinion pieces and academic work on mental health and LGBTQ+ experiences. You’ll currently find him writing his upcoming fiction and self-help books, listening to a dramatic playlist and sipping peppermint hot chocolate.
- Brandon Applegate
Michael Pearson is the author of a novel and seven nonfiction books. For many years he directed the graduate program in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University where he taught courses in narrative nonfiction, the American novel, and modern Irish literature.
From 1997 to 2006, he directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is currently a full-time writer, working on both nonfiction and fiction projects.
Her characters stare into dark woods, gaze into the barrel of guns, gape at the wall-eyed proponents of nihilism. She intuited that the writer and the backwoods prophet might have one thing in common—they both had the power to become realists of distances.
This past September, I spoke with writer, educator, and ex-New Yorker, Michael Pearson, about his nonfiction work and his soon-to-be released book “Reading Life: On Books, Memory and Travel” (Mercer University Press, 2015).
Michael Pearson is the director of creative writing at Old Dominion University. He is the author of “Imagined Places: Journeys Into Literary America.” “A Place That’s Known: Essays,” “Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx,” and most recently, the novel “Shohola Falls.”
Aug 19, 2024 · Reviewed by: Michael Pearson. “the Bronx surely is a cornucopia of stories, and it’s hard to imagine anyone who could tell those stories with more clarity, optimism, and love.”. The Bronx, for years one of the most demonized and mythologized parts of the United States, now has its Edward Gibbon.
