Richard Goodman's latest book is The Bicycle Diaries: One New Yorker's Journey Through 9-11.  He is also the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France, A New York Memoir and The Soul of Creative Writing.  He has written on a variety of subjects for many national publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, Commonweal, Vanity Fair, The Writer's Chronicle, Saveur, Louisville Review, Ascent, French Review, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. His essay, "In Search of the Exact Word," appears in the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus. Richard Goodman is a founding member of the New York Writers Workshop.  He teaches Creative Nonfiction at Spalding University’s Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky.  He is Visiting Assistant Professor of Nonfiction Writing at the University of New Orleans.