Trey Ellis is a novelist, screenwriter, blogger and Assistant Professor at Columbia University. His new memoir is "Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood," from which this is adapted.

Trey Ellis's Salon stories

Thursday, Feb 7, 2008 04:44 PST

How does a single father ever get laid?

I have two kids to raise, a dating scene to navigate, and a rubber vagina in my drawer. Bachelorhood is off to a rough start.
Thursday, Nov 30, 2000 12:22 PST

Black self-sabotage

An African-American scholar says we're holding ourselves back. I say, "Who're you calling 'we'?"

Currently in Salon