Read online (selected)

About writing and books:

• Review of Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug for the New York Times Book Review
• Review of Likes by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum for the New York Times Book Review
• “The Best Novels Featuring Classical Music” at Shepherd
• “Five Best: Biographical Novels About Artists” in the Wall Street Journal
• “The Ordinary Woman Theory,” Paris Review Daily
• “On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User’s Manual,” Lit Hub
• “Naming Makes Visible: Building a Craft Vocabulary,” Craft
• “A Fiction Writer Takes Off Her Shoes,” Brevity
• “Revision Advice from the Judges’ Table,” Brevity
• “The Glory of the Bad Idea,” The Kenyon Review

About other things:

• “Baseline,” Territory
• “Live Demonstrations of Love,” AGNI Online
• “You’re the Kids Who Robbed Us,” Salon
• “Prayer for the Moth, but also for the Spider,” Memorious.

Read in print (selected)

• “In the Matter of Alice Berkley,” Creative Nonfiction
• “The Six Answers on the Back of a Trivial Pursuit Card,”anthologized in The Shell Game: Writers Play With Borrowed Forms, ed. Kim Adrian and The Spirit of Disruption: Landmark Essays from the Normal School,ed. Steven Church. Originally appeared in The Normal School.
• “Pesäpallo: Playing at the Edge of the World,” anthologized in True Stories, Well Told: from the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine, eds. Lee Gutkind and Hattie Fletcher and Anatomy of Baseball, eds. Andrew Blauner and Lee Gutkind. Originally appeared in Creative Nonfiction. 
• “Year of the Dogs,” The Southern Review