About Life Among the Terranauts

Life Among the Terranauts is longlisted for The Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize

I talk about LATT on the podcasts Let’s Deconstruct a Story (“a podcast for the story nerds”) by Kelly Fordon, Five Questions with the Kalamazoo Public Library and Overbooked by the Callander Public Library 

Life Among the Terranauts is named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review 

More reviews from The Rumpus, The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Review of Books, the New York Journal of Books, Reading the West,  The Arkansas International and Counterclock

 Life Among the Terranauts named a Best Book of January 2021 by Entertainment Weekly and Apple Books and a Best Book of 2021 by Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day and The Manual

The story “Chance Me” from LATT is Recommended Reading at Electric Literature, introduced by Ramona Ausubel (One of RR’s ten most popular posts of 2021!)

At Fiction Writers Review, a new interview about LATT with interviewer Rachel Swearingen  

LATT featured in the Detroit News, the WGVU Morning Show with Shelley Irwin, and GVNext

A “Most anticipated” title of January 2021 by The Millions and Paperback Paris

About The Vexations

The Vexations is a finalist for the 2020 American Library in Paris Book Award, “given to the most distinguished book of the year, encompassing all genres, about France and the French.”

The Vexations is named one of the Ten Best Books of 2019 by the Wall Street Journal

Listen to an interview with me about Erik Satie and The Vexations, with Scott Simon on NPR Weekend Edition

“Rewriting the Boy Genius,” an essay by Lily Meyer for the Atlantic that places The Vexations in a “rich tradition of women writers who complicate the myth of male virtuosity.” The Atlantic also featured the novel in a Weekly Guide to the Best in Books, by Myles Poydras and in “The Problem with the Genius Myth” by Kate Cray

The Vexations named one of “10 July Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down” by O, the Oprah magazine, and one of the Best Summer/Fall 2019 Debuts by Library Journal

In Fiction Writers Review, an interview about The Vexations with writer Marian Crotty

“Five Best”: I recommend five biographical novels about fictional artists in the Wall Street Journal

Two essays that relate to my experiences writing The Vexations: “The Ordinary Woman Theory,” in the Paris Review Daily; and “On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User’s Manual” in Lit Hub

Interviews with Pulp, Art Beat on WMUK 102.1,  Deborah Kalb and podcast Overflowing Bookshelves.

Debut Author Spotlight article on waiting for “the novel-sized idea,” in Masters Review

“If My Book…” in Monkeybicycle (in which I compare my novel (flatteringly) to a bunch of weeds)

I’m one of five authors interviewed over at Lit Hub (spoiler: my childhood ambition was to play piano in a mall)

The Vexations recommended by Southern Living, Bookriot, and Litstack

Articles about The Vexations in Pittsburgh City Paper and MLive/Grand Rapids Press

The Vexations included in most-anticipated lists from The Millions, Craft, Publishers Lunch, Book Riot, A.V. Club