Selected Essays
On Letting Go of My Inner Editor
Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing
Interview:
A Q&A with Elizabeth Strout about her new book, Olive, Again
Book Review:
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
New York Times Book Review
Book Review:
Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens
“Sexy Backs and Headless Women: A Book Cover Manifesto”
The Millions, reprinted in BUST
The Three-Month Itch
The New York Times Magazine
Book Review:
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Book Review:
Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
A Quarantine Diary
Los Angeles Times
The Obvious Heroine
Jewish Book Council
The Other Queen of Purim
Tablet
The Biblical Story that Taught Me How to
Have Hard Conversations with My Kids
Washington Post
Book Review:
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
A Call to Hands
Elle.com
Speaking Volumes: On Aharon Appelfeld
Moment Magazine
Are You My Mother? On Motherly Abandonment in Literature
The Millions
Confessions of an Inner Beauty
MORE Magazine
Jewish Mail-Order Brides on the American Frontier
Tablet
Selected Short Stories
Alan at the Kirschbergs'
A consummate wanderer, his mysterious tingling, and the people who take him in.
The Lobster Mafia Story
Murder, marriage, miscarriages, and a girl who likes chocolate chip cookies. Pushcart Prize winner and Boston's 2012 One City One Story selection
Lotto
A small city, a strange friendship, dirty magazines, old love. Pushcart Prize winner
