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Other Writing

A selection of writings that can be found online.

Essays:

On being a writer parent to a child with language disabilities, Psychology Today

On the subject of the lasting damage of child abuse, The Rumpus

On my fears about life under Trump, before the election of 2016, The Rumpus

On craft, the use of secondary characters, Hunger Mountain

On the writer’s life and learning along the way, The Review Review

On life’s imponderables, and how to write about them, Redux Lit Journal (originally in Colorado Review)

A wry look at being swamped by life, New York Times

 

Interviews:

On Weekend Edition, NPR

With Lisa L. Lewis on Literary Mama

With Natalie Baszile on The Rumpus

With Catherine La Sota on Electric Literature

With Leah Hood, on the subject of being “older”, Medium.com

With Nichole Bernier, on what constitutes “success”, Fiction Writers Review

 

Book Reviews:

On Samrat Upadhyay’s Mad City, New York Times

On Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, New York Times

On Christine Sneed’s Paris He Said, New York Times

 

Short Fiction:

“A Country Where You Once Lived”, in Hunger Mountain, from If I loved you, I would tell you this

 

 

 

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