SELECTED WRITINGS
 
FICTION
Rapture and the Fiercest Love From Rainey Royal Originally published in The Normal School, spring 2014 Read Keep My Hands from Stealing From Rainey Royal Originally published as "She Will be Flesh" in Bomb, summer 2013 Read Rose From Normal People Don't Live Like This Originally published in the Santa Monica Review, spring 2002 Read  
ESSAYS
Closing the Book The New York Times, August 2015 Read My Mother's Appetite The Manifest-Station, November 2014 Read 7 Things I've Learned So Far Writer's Digest, September 2014 Read The Blue Negligee More magazine, December-January 2015 In My Father's Study Upon His Death Harper's Magazine, October 2014 Truth in Fiction Barnard magazine, spring 2014 Read Rat, Friend or Foe? NPR, December 2003 Listen Celebrating a Child's Own Decisions The New York Times, March 1995 Read  
REVIEWS
Review of Lucky Us, by Amy Bloom The New York Times Book Review, August 10, 2014 Read Review of Amity and Sorrow, by Peggy Riley The New York Times Book Review, April 14, 2013 Read Review of Seating Arrangements, by Maggie Shipstead The New York Times Book Review, June 24, 2012 Read