Essays

CREATIVE NONFICTION AND ESSAYS

  • Trouble in Mind. The Rumpus
  • Excerpt. My Unsentimental Education. Longreads
  • A Woman with Ambition. Salon.com
  • When Elite Volunteers Dominate, Kids Lose. New York Times
  • Why I Wrote About Sex. The Nervous Breakdown
  • It’s Only Oblivion. The American Scholar
  • You’re In Trouble. Am I Right? Longreads
  • Transit (1986). Hobart
  • Gray Area. Guernica
  • The Sex Trade in Northwest Wisconsin. The Morning News
  • Excerpt from On the Outskirts of Normal. The Nervous Breakdown
  • Beauty Lessons: What I Wish My Daughter Knew. Midlife at the Oasis
  • Just Talk. Texas Observer
  • Excerpt. On the Outskirts of Normal. Dallas Morning News

BOOK REVIEWS AND ESSAYS ABOUT BOOKS

  • The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
  • Bird Cloud: Annie Proulx’s Real Estate Porn
  • Long Last Happy by Barry Hannah
  • Alexandra Styron’s Reading my Father
  • God and Satan Roam the Pages of this Memoir
  • Paul Auster’s characters Rooted in the Past
  • Rodney Crowell’s Chinaberry Sidewalks
  • Jayne Anne Phillips Rocks: A Reader’s Retrospective

 

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