SELECTED WRITINGS

FICTION

String Tension 1979
From List of All Possible Desires
First published in The Santa Monica Review
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Rapture and the Fiercest Love
From Rainey Royal
First published in The Normal School
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Tattoo
From List of All Possible Desires
First published in Bomb
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Rose
From Normal People Don’t Live Like This
First published in the Santa Monica Review and r.k.v.r.y
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My MODERN LOVE: Was I a Terrible Daughter, or Just an Honest One?
A piece on craft, truth-telling and love in The New York Times
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How Writing Rainey Royal Saved My Life
A revealing essay on despair, car-crash friendships and the salvation of writing in Lit Hub
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Does the Woman in the Painting Have a Secret?
Longreads and What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About
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Closing the Book
The New York Times Book Review
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In My Father’s Study Upon His Death
Harper’s Magazine
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Truth in Fiction
Barnard magazine
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Rat, Friend or Foe?
NPR
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Celebrating a Child’s Own Decisions
The New York Times
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Review of Lucky Us, by Amy Bloom
The New York Times Book Review
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Review of Amity and Sorrow, by Peggy Riley
The New York Times Book Review
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Review of Seating Arrangements, by Maggie Shipstead
The New York Times Book Review
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