WRITING
Latest
When the Flock Changed, novel excerpt, winner 2009 Narrative Prize
A Novel, Not a Memoir, essay at the LA Times
Portrait of My Father, personal reflection at Granta
After the Affair: On Jean Rhys and Ford Maddox Ford, correspondence with Alexander Chee at Granta
Doubt: A Syllabus, at Bookforum
What Would Jesus Buy?, at Bookforum
Review of A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book, at Barnes & Noble Review
Conversations You Have at Twenty, essay, 2nd Prize, 2008 Narrative Love Story Contest; anthologized in Love is a Four-Letter Word; shortlisted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009.
Contributions to NPR’s Books We Like
Selected Writings
Regarding the Insurance Defense Attorney, fiction in Eyeshot; winner of City College’s Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Award
Luke, fiction in storySouth
Post-Extraction, fiction in Swink
Confessions of a Cradle Robber, essay in When I Was a Loser
Wartime in Williamsburg, essay in Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood
Selected Reviews and Opinions
Review of Lilian Pizzichini’s The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys, at The Second Pass
Review of Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields, in The New York Times Book Review
Review of C.E. Morgan’s All the Living, at The Second Pass
Ten Novels and Stories that Would Make Good Movies, at IFC.com
Review of Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader, in the LA Times Book Review
Review of Richard Price’s Lush Life, in the Boston Globe
Review of Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project, in The Boston Globe
Review of Cate Kennedy’s Dark Roots, in the New York Times Book Review
Review of Ellen Litman’s The Last Chicken in America, in the NY Times Book Review
Send Up the Clowns, in The American Prospect
Review of Sean Wilsey’s Oh the Glory of it All, in The Boston Globe
Review of William Lychack’s The Wasp Eater, in The Washington Post Book World